WEBVTT - Are We Walking Backwards As A Nation? 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:43.960 He with uh. If you watch Coffee Time to Baby, 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:46.360 you know the name Flame, my role also known as 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.000 my role Flame. Come in with last and come in 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:51.479 with them love lounds. Baby, you better catch it when 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:54.960 you can't drop a knowledge from fatherhood to politics, shouting 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:58.279 now comics just paying homics. What's up? Tip? Yeah? You 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:00.920 know she raped shot towns on speaking to the grown 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:03.920 a second, We're gonna last cut of the kicking and 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:06.240 at the end we leave it with just a lifty spirits. 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:08.240 Think you want to revisit, so your first take a 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:10.480 list of young folks, say you slip, oh folks that 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:15.120 we take it. No do what you doin' nokish, do 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:41.040 what you do? Can't no kids? Do what I do? Well? Hello, Hello, Hello, 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:44.720 and welcome to laugh and learn with Flame Monroe and 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:51.960 Lauren Hogan Hogan. Hi, Hi name, how are you? I 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:54.480 am wonderful? Hello Flame Man's welcome to laugh and learn 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:56.880 to laugh non podcast with my girl Lauren Hogan and 0:01:56.960 --> 0:01:59.160 myself Flaming brow. And I want you to know we 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:02.440 have had an event full last event for eleven days. 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:05.279 Ch'a'll talk about it. Okay, you go first, or actually 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:07.800 let me go first, because yours is more detailed than mine. 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:13.560 So um, my last what, yeah, eight days has been crazy. 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:15.560 I just got back from Florida at two o'clock in 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:21.560 the morning Tuesday. In Florida, we had a major Florida 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:26.239 AIDS walk event. Um, we had a walk and concert actually, 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:29.639 and it was so great, you know, everybody was pleased. 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:31.320 They said it was the best one yet. We had 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:33.720 like over two thousand people show up, which is great 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:37.440 for us, and we raised almost two million dollars for 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:41.440 local benefiting organizations in the um Brower County area. Jesse 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.679 j and Deborah Cox actually got on stage and performed together. 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:49.240 Those two singing heifers. Was phenomenal and they're both sweethearts, 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:52.160 and overall it was just really good. It was a 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:55.760 really really good um show. What. I'm really proud, you know. 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.280 CEO was happy, which always is a good thing for me. 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:01.960 And yeah, and I'm taking my butt to Vegas tomorrow. 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:04.680 And you were in Florida, And let me ask you 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:10.079 a personal question, stopping help, did you do any real therapy? 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:13.639 Dear listen, don't be putting my business on the street. 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.560 I did. I did do some retail therapy for those 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:20.320 of you guys that live in Florida. If you ever 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:21.920 go to Florida and you want to go to an 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:24.480 outlet to get some discounted prices. Um. I went to 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:28.200 saw Grass, which is like right between Hollywood, Florida and 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:30.800 for Lauderdale, which where our event was in Fort Lauderdal. 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:33.200 And yes, I did some retail therapy because I had 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:36.360 a stressful week. Okay, yes I did. I got some 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:41.360 cute stuff and I was happy. Yes, it ain't No, 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:43.440 it wasn't even stressed. You just need a reason it 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:45.760 was stressful. It made me. I felt better after I 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:48.440 got the stuff, So yes, it was stressed for leaving 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:52.320 for sure. Well this was listened. So we started off 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:57.400 by doing south By Southwest and in Texas or was 0:03:57.440 --> 0:03:59.160 it eighteen? What day was that there? What day was 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:01.720 that there? Was it even that late? No? We were 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:08.640 there like the yeah, which was absolutely phenomenal. We required 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:11.200 some new corporate sponsors for My Heart. I spoke with 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:17.600 Connor the president, Will Pearson, gayl uh feel um Noel. 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:21.000 Everyone at My Heart was so loving and so welcoming 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:23.400 to me, and they made me feel so special. They 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:25.840 loved what I had to say to promote laugh and 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:28.320 learning podcasts, as well as so many other influences on 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.279 the on I Heart under the Black and Peckt network, 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:34.839 and I'm speaking tomorrow for I Heart here in l A. 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:37.520 But after leaving there, I went to Chicago to get 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:39.280 a couple of dresses made, and then we had such 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:44.240 a whirlwind in New York. We did Caroline posted by 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:47.320 Sherry Shephard along with Damon Williams as a special guest. 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:50.120 It was wildly successful. So many of the flame Man 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.400 showed up, showed out, showed love, came from near and far. 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:55.479 I appreciated some of y'all. I love. Some of y'all 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:57.760 is a little stranger than I like for you to be. 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:02.480 But never guys came and showed the loyalty as support, 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:06.000 which was great. Then I did The Breakfast Club again 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.600 for the fifth time, fourth time in studio, which was 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.640 wildly successful, and they offered me a job, Thank you Jesus. 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:15.640 And we did the Wendy Williams Show with guest host 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:18.400 Sherry Shepherd, and we sold them four minutes of fame. 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.000 And now we got something big coming, so I will 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:22.840 be working with you talk about it. We could do 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:26.520 a reveal later. We'll be joining Sherry Shepherd as part 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.080 of her team for the New Sherry Show in September, 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:31.760 doing hot topics that that I can talk about. But 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:36.640 overall it was the most successful uh run that I've had. 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.160 That just was so great and I'm looking forward to 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:41.120 all the big things that's gonna jump off from this. 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:43.960 But it was great and we laugh, they laughed, Rady show. 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:45.640 So some of you guys get to actually see it 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.800 from home that Thursday. So it was pretty dope. And 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:51.520 now we're going on to move forward. And Lauren, you 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:53.960 you set all that up. Lauren did all the contracts, 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:55.880 made sure I would take care of I'm telling you 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:58.320 right now, if you wanted me to love you, take 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:01.320 care of me, and I'm talk about financially, if you 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:03.520 want me to love you as a person. I love 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:05.599 people that take care of me because I'm so independent 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:07.920 and I don't allow everybody in. But Lord takes care 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:09.960 of me. Because if she did not cuss her ass 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:15.359 out any who I want to. I don't want to 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:18.200 get heavy in it right now. We'll but I want 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:19.919 to get it out the way because I want to 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:21.760 get I want to spend most of my time on 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:24.640 the pride that I have for black women in this country. 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:27.400 And what Kataji Brown Jackson is doing right now, we'll 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:30.080 get that will be there, that will be the basis 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:33.320 of the show. But I shot with the hypocrisy of 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:38.000 the trans community, LGBT community, with the disrespect of Leah Thompson, 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:41.000 who was a male athlete a year ago, a male 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:44.880 swimmer and competition who ranked in the low four hundreds 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:49.000 or possibly even the low five where they keep coming 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.640 up with different numbers or ain't too and there was 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.960 five something, so it was it was very low anyho, 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:59.599 and she I'm going because I wanted to dress her 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:01.320 as a propo now that she wants to be the 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:03.680 dressed as wants to compete against the women and have 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:07.000 competed against the female swimmers and has become number one. 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:10.760 So my the disrespect to me, First of all, you're 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:14.480 disrespecting biological women, because I don't say sis, I say biological. 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:19.760 You're disrespecting biological women. Secondly, I feel like you're disrespecting 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.920 women of trans experience who have put in the time 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:26.360 and the effort and the years of blood, wet and 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:30.320 tears to productively live as women uh live in society 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:34.320 and blend work as women and respectfully carry themselves as women. 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:37.040 You let this micro wave trendy come through after a 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:40.000 year to become wherever you want them to be. And 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:42.200 now the hypocrisy is they saying that it's fair. It 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:45.040 is not fair. First of all, they said this y'all 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.640 walk in the round, in the in the dressing room 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:50.200 with her junk out. Here's the thing. I've done drag 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.360 shows for thirty years, and as a trans performer, even 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:55.880 getting dressed with all my girlfriends and in the room, 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.480 we don't walk around with our stuff out, not because 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:01.000 we're ashamed of what we have. It's just respect for 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:02.800 the other girl. You know, you don't want to show 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:05.680 your personal area to another girl. And this child is 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:09.160 walking around with her penis and testicals because she has 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:11.480 a penis in testicos. She don't tuck going some women, 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:13.560 so you can really tell she got one in front 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:17.360 of all these young girls and women. Disrespectful it is. 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:19.920 I've never learned to walk backwards. No one ever taught 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.160 me to walk backwards. But if the trans community and 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:25.360 the gay community don't see that this is walking us backwards, 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:28.800 I don't know what it's going to take. It is preponderous. 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:32.080 It is ridiculous. It is disrespectful not only to trans 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:34.600 women but to biological women because a lot of those 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:37.160 women have trained for years and years and years, and 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:41.400 you are putting them up against a physically strong man 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:43.800 that has transition to a woman. This child looked like 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:45.920 Michael Phelps with a bun. What she really looks like? 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:49.000 It is the character very Demilo from and Living Single, 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:52.400 the character Jim Carrey used to play. And I I 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.160 am in a place of rage and fury about it 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.440 because I'm not hearing about how I identify identified. If 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.720 you want to be fair in this country, create a 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:06.439 lane for trans for trans athletes, just like they created 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:09.720 the special Olympics, they have the pair of political Olympics. 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:12.960 The w NBA was created so that professional women could 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:15.480 play basketball with each other since they couldn't play with 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:18.280 the me. So create a lane for trans athletes. First 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:19.920 of all, I don't think nobody's gonna watch that ship. 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:21.880 I see it what I see it, but training sniffers 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.640 and training chases. But still create a lane to make 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.640 it fair. You're biological woman, Lord, please give me your 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:29.440 take on it, because I love when you challenged me, 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:31.720 and you see something different. Tell me. If I'm seeing 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:35.080 something wrong, please tell me. So you actually brought this 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:37.600 story up to me. I wasn't very familiar with it, 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:42.800 but I don't know the whole you know, circumstances around this, 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:45.120 but what it sounds like from what I've read and 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.000 what you and I have talked about, it almost seems 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:51.040 like it was a matter of convenience that this, you know, 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:55.720 that Leah Thompson basically went from being a male athlete 0:09:55.720 --> 0:10:00.000 to a female athlete. Um, it's just it's a little strange. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.760 And I'm not trying to be offensive or you know, 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:07.080 cause any harm in what I'm saying, but you know, timing, 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.400 it's a little strange, you know what I mean. So 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.480 I actually do agree with you in terms of I 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:15.479 think that the best thing to do in these scenarios 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:20.200 is to actually create an Olympics for you know, the 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:22.600 transgender community. And there's nothing wrong with that, you know 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:24.959 what I mean. People have feedback of saying like, oh, 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:27.680 that's not fair, they're not you're not giving them equal opportunity, 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:29.600 But I don't see it as that, you know, just 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:33.000 to your point, we have the special Olympics, we have 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:35.280 you know, different types of Olympics for different you know, 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.960 communities of people, and it's to level out the playing field. 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:41.800 And to your point, to have an athlete who was 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:44.640 competing with men and swimming and ranked between four or 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:48.120 five whatever the actual number is, and to then switch 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:51.480 over to being, you know, an athlete competing with women 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.120 and all of a sudden you're number one and you've 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:57.760 got testosterone throwing flowing through your body. It is. It's 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:00.640 an unfair advantage. It's no different from that look like 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:02.760 they could move a gallon of water with each stroking. 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:06.040 That looked like or so you know that thing. It's ridiculous. 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:07.760 I'm telling you something right now, and you know this 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:09.840 is last line, so I'm gonna make a joke about it. 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:12.640 But what I do now is the disrespect. It is 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.760 setting back the trans community like you wouldn't believe. And 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:18.320 I hate that the trans community don't see that because 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:20.839 like I said, I ain't never learned to walk backwards. 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:23.280 And if this is Generation Z sick enough for this, 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:25.920 you know, is the last last alphabet we'll be going 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:31.160 after that? Okay, Well, you know gen Z folks, they're 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:35.280 very fluid, they're very outspoken, which I think is great. Um, 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:38.600 but I do agree with you one that I think 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:41.440 that a specific lyne should be created because do you 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.040 think that it was a matter of convenience that Leah 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.439 Thompsone from being a male athlete to a female athlete 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:50.040 just to get a higher ranking. I think that the 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:52.880 words that they used to say was man one man up, 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:55.240 that she needed to one man up, no out of 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.720 no distries, one man up, and then you should have 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:00.720 made yourself competition level on that. Now you identify as 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:02.480 a woman. I get that if that's how you feel 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.800 on the ins that, I completely understand that. But the 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.640 fairness of you challenging and swimming against these other women. 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:10.920 And here's the question, lord, if you had a daughter 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.560 that was on a swimming team sixteen seventeen years old 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.320 and they had a trans woman in here with you 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.680 and she walking around with her penis out, how would 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:21.520 you feel as a parent. I would have an issue 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:23.840 with that. I mean, and this is coming from me. 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:26.680 Mind you like, I grew up dancing all the time, 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:30.280 so backstage, you know, you gotta strip, change costumes and 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:33.760 everything sometimes. You know, we never had dressing rooms with 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:36.559 men per se, But you know, you grew up with, 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:39.040 you know, the guys that you were dancing with, so 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:41.160 there was a level of comfort to you know, some 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.400 guys definitely have seen my boobs on my but before. 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.400 It is what it is, but they're still to your point, 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:48.760 there's still a level of respect. You're just not getting 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:51.800 undressed and just walking around, you know, in your birthday 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.480 suit just because you can, or maybe just because you 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:57.480 just want to feel free. That's not That's not appropriate, 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:01.520 you know what I mean, whether in any capacity really, 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:02.760 you know what I mean, unless you want to go 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:04.320 to a new beach and you know that's what you 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:07.960 were marketing for, but that's not appropriate. I I absolutely 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:13.040 agree with you, and we my trans brothers and sisters 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:15.679 and to my biological brothers and sisters, and I'm gonna 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:17.719 see it, and I'm gonna sit in as play of 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:21.880 Layman's terms as I can. Trans Women are trans women, 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:26.640 Transmian are Transmien women are women, and me and are men. 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:28.520 And that is as simple as I can make And 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:32.120 that is not taking anything or discrediting anything from anyone. 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:35.240 That is what it is. We keep muddying the waters 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:37.959 and making it great, and it's confusing the hell out 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.520 of the youth while y'all talking about and setting up 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:43.520 for for this child who's over there who has clearly 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:47.160 been disrespectful to women and to me. And honestly, y'all 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.720 should be in Texas and you should be in Florida 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.319 fighting for that. No, don't say gay Bill, because what 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:55.360 you're doing is killing the youth with nobody to talk to, 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:58.880 no protection, no outlet to let that free to freely 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:03.240 speak to someone to make them feel comfortable and non judgmental. Y'all, 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.319 y'all did this. I didn't do it. Y'all died, and 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:06.800 I'm gonna say what I said, y'all need it. I 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:09.480 didn't do it because I'm telling Apple and I know 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:12.520 a stick from a stone, and I know people are 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:16.320 definitely gonna take issue with that comment that you just made. 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:18.959 But like I said all the time, you're an anomaly 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:23.040 in especially in the trans space, because I've never met 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:26.520 somebody a part of the trans community or i should say, 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:31.080 or identifies as trans that has your your ideology. At 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.280 the end of the day, Um, you really see the 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:35.800 world in black and white, and you know you come 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:38.760 from an area and era excuse me of like Rocky 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:43.320 Horror Picture Show and like, you know, stone Wall, I mean, 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:45.080 I'm gonna put I'm gonna putt your age out there. 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:47.920 But I'm just saying like, that's a little bit before 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:49.800 your time. I know, I know, but I'm just saying 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:53.520 that's that's where you know, that's where you come from 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:55.480 in terms of your background. You know, you still say 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.400 the word tranny, which is a lot of trans people 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:00.360 find that offensive. You know, they're like, don't call me 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:03.920 a training But that was a familiar term, you know, 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:07.640 when you were growing up in this community. So saying 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:11.280 all that to say, yeah, creating a you know, an 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:14.400 Olympics for the trans community, I think that's it's fair 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:18.480 because otherwise, I mean, to have somebody who's transgender competing 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:20.240 with them in like a Leiah Thompson, you can clearly 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:24.239 see that there's still testosterone being produced. Women get disqualified 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:25.640 for things like that if they were to take a 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:29.520 hormone enhance her or something, you know, to perform better. 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:33.680 And it's in my eyes, it's the same, Yeah, did 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:35.120 you stay on the swim so it looked like the 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.560 easter egg down? She didn't even try to add it. 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:40.480 That is one of the purposes of being a trans woman. 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:42.280 And when you just keep your when you keep your 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:45.080 male genitalia, you at least try to put it away 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:47.600 and had it. This clearly is just laying there like 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:51.280 dad meet girl. I'm not at all she looks like 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:53.560 Michael Phelps with a bun if y'all really want the dirt. 0:15:56.400 --> 0:16:00.040 But you know what, I'm not knocking that shelf in 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.680 the fact that's trans, that that is something that is 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.720 ingrained in your DNA. I understand that part. I will 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:09.160 never understand. And and I'm more upset with the powers 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:11.920 that be with the people on the board that allowed 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.960 this to happen, because y'all should have put your foot 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:18.720 down and said, no, this is not happening. But you know, 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:21.520 everybody up in the armies about what they identified as 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:25.440 if they are created lane, if you create a lane 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:29.400 for trans athletes, we wouldn't even have to have this conversation. Yeah, 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:31.600 I agree with you, but as we all know, everybody 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.800 scared of cancel culture. So imagine if they didn't allow 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:36.880 Leah Thompson to compete with the women and all of 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:40.000 the media outrage and the trans community is gonna be 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:43.360 coming for the swimming Olympics. People like you could you 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:46.280 know how that goes, so it don't always work. I 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:51.560 eat Netflix, Dave Chappelle. Okay, let's move forward, well really 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:55.200 quickly too. Well, I hold on before we get there, though, 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:57.400 I do want to just say, because you mentioned Disney 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:59.400 and that don't Say Gay Bill, I do want to 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:02.479 give cool rose to the Disney stars that are actually 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:05.560 pushing back against Disney. I saw a report today that 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:08.840 Raven Simone and the entire cast of Raven's Home actually 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:12.440 walked out today because of the don't Say Gay Bill, 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:15.119 and Disney stands on it. You know, Gabrielle Union has 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:17.280 spoke out publicly because she just did the Cheaper by 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:20.280 the Dozen movies saying how you know this is not 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:22.879 right and Disney should have taken a proper stance on it, 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:25.760 and basically calling out the CEO. Disney also did a 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.520 walk out today, So UM shout out to all those 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:30.159 people that are, you know, fighting for the rights of 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:33.280 these young kids. Because even still, the don't Say gaybel 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:35.879 actually failed in Georgia. They tried to bring it to 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:38.480 you know, the house and they were like, no, we're 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:40.959 not doing that. So I think Texas is the next one. 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:45.520 As young as a young gay person or young whatever 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:48.040 identified as. I knew I had strange feelings when I 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.919 was young. I knew I felt different people, but I 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:53.600 couldn't talk to my mother about it. My father wasn't there, 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:56.080 my uncles were completely against it, and so my aunties 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:58.840 and a black household is here. It's horrible for me 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:01.639 to say this, but in a black household, it's probably 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:03.359 safe for you to be a nax murder or a 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:04.960 rapist than it is for you to come out and 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.199 say that you're gay or trance. And I know that 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:09.840 sounds really crazy, but that is that is what it 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:12.080 is in the Black community a lot. And I'm not 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:14.000 sure if this is in other communities because I don't 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:17.879 know other communities. I know the Black community. But I 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:20.200 had a counselor and I had a teacher that made 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:22.600 me feel safe enough to talk to them about how 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:25.600 I felt. They didn't judge me, they embraced me. So 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:28.280 I it made me comfortable being who I was because 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:30.960 I had an outlet. Had I not had that outlet, 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:32.760 I probably would have cut my wrists or cut my 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:35.640 throat because I would have felt so ostracized and so 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:38.200 unique from everybody else. Because of course we want to 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:40.479 fit in, We want to feel like everybody else feels. 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:43.840 But I needed somebody to reac me that I was okay. 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:46.719 Now given taken that away. When people who don't have 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:48.480 something like that, what what is that is going to 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:52.880 cause suicide and and and harm, self harm and self 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:56.240 deplication to people, or self mutilation because a lot of 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:58.040 people are taught to hate their gender, tell you in 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:00.919 their trans they tell you to hate that you were 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:03.760 born in the wrong body. I don't know how people feel. 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:05.600 I never felt like I was born in the wrong body. 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:08.400 I enhanced the body that I had. I never took 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:11.159 off anything but some weight. But I put on you know, 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:13.399 I just put on what I wanted. It is not 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:18.320 giving these young people who identify as queer and LGBT 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:22.240 or trans any place to go but to the grave. 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:24.720 And that's it's horrible to say it like that, but 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:27.439 it's absolutely true. No, I think that's very factual. You 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:29.560 know what I mean. If you don't have outlets, especially 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:31.760 you know, as kids, if you don't have a safe 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:34.879 space to go to, where do you go? You know 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.640 what I mean, If you can't communicate and express your feelings. 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:40.000 You know what I mean, and you know, every kid 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:42.400 can't afford a therapist and have mommy or daddy sending 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:45.280 me to go talk to somebody, you know. So I 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:47.520 I wholeheartedly agree with that. And I like that you're 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:50.000 saying that too, like you enhanced your body. You didn't 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:52.760 change your body, you enhance it. That was like that. 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:56.080 But now when I was younger, let me be honest 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:58.320 and be very open. And I admit that when I 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:02.399 was maybe nineteen or twenty because actually considered having a 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:04.720 sexual reassignment surgery, I wanted to get, you know, a 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:07.200 sex change or whatever. But there was a different mind frame. 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:09.760 And then at that time you had to say thirty 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:11.920 forty thousand dollars. I ain't had no job that's gonna 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:13.960 help me, and let me say thirty or forty dollars. 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:16.080 Now they have insurances now that will do that. A 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:18.760 lot of companies even do that, like Starbucks are pretty 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:22.240 good with that. But if I would have done that, 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:25.280 looking back on my life now, I realized the great 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:28.159 mistake that I personally would have made because I wouldn't 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:30.520 have had children, and I would not have had the 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:33.240 experience of loving a couple of people that I loved 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:36.199 you know, because I didn't have a penis, you know. 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:39.560 But that that's a whole another conversation. But what I'm 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:43.160 saying that in life changes in phases. You may think 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:46.960 one thing thirteen and eighteen, you think another thing, you 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:49.240 think a whole another thing thirty two to forty. So 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:52.960 give yourself an opportunity to to live your life, discover 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:55.240 who you are, find the joys of who you are 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:58.960