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Speaker 2: your host, Nah Wong with me as Garrison.
Speaker 1: Hi.
Speaker 2: Okay, so we're covering another aspect of Trump's agenda forty seven.
Speaker 2: All right, we're looking at President Trump's plan to protect
Speaker 2: children from left wing gender insanity. Now, despite that title,
Speaker 2: this is the least trumpy of all of these. He
Speaker 2: is just phoning this one the fucking It's the most
Speaker 2: hymn reading off a teleprompter I have ever seen in
Speaker 2: any speech he's ever given, because.
Speaker 3: Historically he's never cared about this kind of stuff. He's
Speaker 3: just having to do it now to appease the people
Speaker 3: he needs to get votes from. But like, if you
Speaker 3: look at Trump's stances on transgender people historically, however, not good.
Speaker 3: They're not like a genda CIDL. And you can really
Speaker 3: tell his hard, isn't it It's.
Speaker 2: He I mean, legitimately, he sounds like so someone doing
Speaker 2: an ad read for a rage shadow legend sponsorship, Like
Speaker 2: it's it's he's so bored. There's like one. It's funny
Speaker 2: because you can tell this just something I started happening
Speaker 2: in the middle of the administration was you could tell
Speaker 2: when his speech writers were just writing in a Trump
Speaker 2: word for him to say so it would look less
Speaker 2: like he was. And they're doing it in this one.
Speaker 2: There's only like one genuinely trumpy thing in this Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: it all fucking sucks. Ass, it's quite bleak. So let's
Speaker 2: let's get into what exactly is in this. I would
Speaker 2: love to hear Trump's plan for the transgenders. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: first he wants to end Biden's executive order on gender
Speaker 2: affirming care. Now you might be asking, wait, Mia, what
Speaker 2: the fuck?
Speaker 4: Wait what executive what executive order? I looked this up too,
Speaker 4: because I was like, wait, what is he talking about?
Speaker 4: So apparently, back in twenty twenty two, Biden issued a
Speaker 4: series of executive orders that were supposed to protect the
Speaker 4: rights of trans kids to get gender affirming care.
Speaker 2: So that didn't happen. No, no, no, now these weren't. Yeah,
Speaker 2: these were mostly stunningly ineffective. Well, I'm going to quote
Speaker 2: from I finally found the actual executive which is disturbingly
Speaker 2: hard to find the actual text of because everyone just
Speaker 2: wanted you to read the press release, because what's actually
Speaker 2: in it is okay. The Secretary of Health and Human
Speaker 2: Services shall, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, use
Speaker 2: the Department of Health and Human Services authority to project
Speaker 2: LGBTQI plus individuals access to medically necessary care from harmful
Speaker 2: state and local laws and practices, and shall promote the
Speaker 2: adoption of promising policies and practices to support health equity,
Speaker 2: including in the area of mental health for LGBTQI youth
Speaker 2: and adults. Within two hundred days of this order, the
Speaker 2: Secretary of HHS sell develop and release sample policies for
Speaker 2: states to safeguard and expand access to health care for
Speaker 2: LGBTQI individuals and their families, including mental health care services.
Speaker 2: Now let's pull out for one second to try to
Speaker 2: figure out what does that actually do. So what is
Speaker 2: being done there. The thing that is being commanded is
Speaker 2: that the Department of Health and Human Services make sample
Speaker 2: guidelines for state. And then there's another part where they
Speaker 2: were talking about how they were going to form a
Speaker 2: committee to study trans mental health care. Uh huh, so
Speaker 2: none of this did shit, right, But this is the
Speaker 2: first thing that Trump's like, We're going to overturn this.
Speaker 2: I guess the actual substantive shift here is and we'll
Speaker 2: get to this in a bit. This didn't do anything.
Speaker 2: This was just a pr op he does. And this
Speaker 2: is funny because he does a series of these things
Speaker 2: every single trans day of visibility, and then nothing ever
Speaker 2: happens because as a joke, we've had like.
Speaker 3: So many states since twenty twenty two completely restrict healthcare
Speaker 3: for trans people under the age of eighteen, and I've
Speaker 3: not heard of a single instance where the federal government
Speaker 3: has intervened to to help to help a kid get
Speaker 3: puberty blockers in the in a state like where they
Speaker 3: passed these sorts of bills.
Speaker 2: I will say this, The Justice Department has done lawsuits, sure, sure,
Speaker 2: and I think they won like one of them. So
Speaker 2: that's not literally nothing, it's just mostly nothing like and
Speaker 2: then this is the thing. It's coming through the judiciary,
Speaker 2: not through the federal bureaucracy. And that's a point of
Speaker 2: contrast that I want to get to because Trump, you know,
Speaker 2: and this is something that's that's always been true about
Speaker 2: sort of the use of executive power by democratic versus
Speaker 2: Republican presidents. Right, sure, you know, there are there like
Speaker 2: the Democrats sometimes do use like massive executive power overreach,
Speaker 2: things like, for example, Obama's claimed to have the legal
Speaker 2: authority to kill any man, woman, or child moment they
Speaker 2: steff off of the US or regardless of citizenship status.
Speaker 2: I think that he used to kill a sixteen year
Speaker 2: old American citizen in Yemen, so that he does that sometimes, right,
Speaker 2: But they don't do anything useful with it. And now
Speaker 2: let's get to what Trope is going to do with
Speaker 2: this quote. Sign a new executive order instructing every federal
Speaker 2: agency to cease all programs to promote the concept of
Speaker 2: sex and gender and transition at any age. Ask Congress
Speaker 2: to permanently stop federal taxpayer dollars from being used to
Speaker 2: promote or pay for these procedures. Okay, so that's bad.
Speaker 2: What exactly this does is kind of murky. We're going
Speaker 2: to talk about planned parenthood in a second, because there's
Speaker 2: another one of these proposals that's a lot worse for
Speaker 2: planned parenthood.
Speaker 3: And I guess that'd be going after some level of
Speaker 3: like government insurance. If you're trying to get medical care
Speaker 3: paid for if you have government insurance, I guess that'd
Speaker 3: be what that's trying to target.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's like two things. One and I
Speaker 2: think this is the main target is well, I don't know,
Speaker 2: it's sort of unclear, but the two main targets I
Speaker 2: think are any kind of federal education program that talks
Speaker 2: about queer people. Sure, and then the second one. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it is like if you're in the military, you won't
Speaker 2: be able to tend to anymore because or if and
Speaker 2: this is actually a pretty big deal because there are
Speaker 2: a lot of federal employees. The federal employees health insurance
Speaker 2: would no longer cover any gender for macare. And this
Speaker 2: is for everyone, right because it is not.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately a lot of transgender employees at the DOT yep.
Speaker 2: So that's very bad. Those drones, Oh god, oh you
Speaker 2: meant oh the you ha do o D? Yes, the department,
Speaker 2: but no, you said do two. Probably the transportation. I
Speaker 2: was like, oh, yeah, that's there's a bunch of.
Speaker 3: Well yes also because yes, but I meant I meant
Speaker 3: the do O D.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nones. You know, it's bad. There's an open question
Speaker 2: here about how exactly this works. So one question that
Speaker 2: I I'm genuinely not sure about. There's a possibility this
Speaker 2: works like abortion funding, where so federal money can't go
Speaker 2: to promoting abortions. I think there's some very weird stuff
Speaker 2: with USAID money overseas, so sometimes happens, but I don't
Speaker 2: know someone, I'm not a USCID expert, but you know,
Speaker 2: so for example, you so if you are a clinic
Speaker 2: that does abortions, right, you can take federal money. You
Speaker 2: just can't use the federal money for the abortions. So
Speaker 2: it's possible that, you know, for example, so one of
Speaker 2: the one of the Influme Consent clinics in Chicago takes
Speaker 2: federal money for HIV treatment. Under this wording, it seems
Speaker 2: like they could still get federal funding for that, but
Speaker 2: they couldn't take any money for gender firming care. But also,
Speaker 2: Congress could just pass a bill that stops I'm pretty
Speaker 2: sure it could pass a bill that stops all funding
Speaker 2: for anyone who does this. So you know, this is
Speaker 2: something that's kind of interesting about these is that this
Speaker 2: stuff is all very very bad. It's also not quite
Speaker 2: the maximalist genocidal policy yet, I think in large part
Speaker 2: because they haven't taken power and because the groups who
Speaker 2: are like pushing this stuff this is actually kind of
Speaker 2: an older This This is from February twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: So okay, it's actually a lot older than a lot
Speaker 2: of the other stuff here, And even even back like
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three, the beginning of the year, stuff
Speaker 2: was less radical than it is now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was before the big we must eliminate transgenderism.
Speaker 3: Yeah thing that started with the Daily Wire, and then
Speaker 3: Trump mirrored some of that rhetoric in his like a
Speaker 3: seapack talk from that spring.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3: It was kind of a ramp up like on some
Speaker 3: of like the quote unquote transgender ism rhetoric really was
Speaker 3: getting more popular on that time. The kind of groomer
Speaker 3: rhetoric from the year previous twenty twenty two is starting
Speaker 3: to kind of fade away, and they were finding a
Speaker 3: new thing to replace it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So there's a good, just decent chance that this
Speaker 2: stuff is all actually much worse when it gets as
Speaker 2: bunched that. That's the way it's written right now, as
Speaker 2: best as I can tell. So the third one, and
Speaker 2: this one is a fiasco. Any hospital or healthcare provider
Speaker 2: who either like gives up puberty blockers or does genderfirming
Speaker 2: surgery for miners, or gives hormones to miners can't accept
Speaker 2: Medicare or Medicaid, they get knocked off of the approved list. Okay,
Speaker 2: so that is a huge deal because that immediately knocks
Speaker 2: out Planned Parenthood. Who plant pair whod gets this like
Speaker 2: Sophie's choice thing of either you don't provide puberty blockers
Speaker 2: like you don't you don't provide gender firming care of
Speaker 2: either like either sort of hormones or puberty blockers to kids,
Speaker 2: or you lose every single person who uses Medicare and Medicaid.
Speaker 2: And that's a lot of people. That's like I've seen
Speaker 2: numbers that suggests it's like forty percent of people who
Speaker 2: use Planned Parenthood use particularly Medicare, And this is a
Speaker 2: complete fiasco.
Speaker 3: I also wonder how this would impact like cis, children
Speaker 3: who need to be put on puberty blockers, because people
Speaker 3: forget that, like combery blockers have been a thing for
Speaker 3: like decades and decades that are like well proven to
Speaker 3: be safe and effective for delaying puberty. It does not
Speaker 3: stop puberty from happening altogether. It does not cast straight
Speaker 3: you permanently or in any of these kind of wild claims.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and the self that's weird here too, is
Speaker 2: like it's the language they're using is really inflammatory shit,
Speaker 2: So it's actually deeply unclear what the fuck they're talking about.
Speaker 3: So, I mean, and I've read a lot of these
Speaker 3: sorts of bills, even like the Arkansas bill targeting IVF.
Speaker 3: When these politicians are questioned about some of the language
Speaker 3: that would, ultimately, if written and acted upon as written,
Speaker 3: would like block a whole bunch of regular medical procedures
Speaker 3: from happening, they're often confused about why they're being asked
Speaker 3: about this because they're like, no, obviously things will continue
Speaker 3: on as normal, and if we have to amend the
Speaker 3: bill to like change this one little thing, then we'll
Speaker 3: do that. They don't actually think about all the little
Speaker 3: tiny ways that this will also just like interferes with
Speaker 3: like regular medical science. Yeah, and they just digital care
Speaker 3: because they know it's because they're never going to prosecute
Speaker 3: for stuff like that. It just isn't it. They're genuinely
Speaker 3: not thinking about those other use cases at all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And like I'm gonna read the first sentence the
Speaker 2: first one of these, like the text of it revoke
Speaker 2: Joe Biden's cruel policies on so called gender affirming care
Speaker 2: and quotes a process that includes giving kids puberty blockers
Speaker 2: and mutating their physical appearance and ultimately performing surgery on
Speaker 2: minor children. So that's like not real, that's not what
Speaker 2: gender affirming care is. So, but the thing is right,
Speaker 2: it's it's fucking impossible to tell whether this would result
Speaker 2: in them actually banning all gender affirming care whatsoever, which
Speaker 2: includes other stuff as well, or if it's just a
Speaker 2: more limited ban like who the fuck knows, because they're
Speaker 2: not being specific at all, so this can mutate into
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of stuff. One of the other immediate
Speaker 2: sort of impacts of banning, particularly if banning meta, is
Speaker 2: that like there's a lot of trans people on it,
Speaker 2: because trans people are significantly poorer than SIS people. So
Speaker 2: I mean, just to take like a random statistic op so,
Speaker 2: the unemployment rate right now in the US is three
Speaker 2: point eight percent. The unemployment rate for trans people is
Speaker 2: eighteen percent, which is nineteen thirty five great depression levels
Speaker 2: of unemployment. So you know, if you if you're a
Speaker 2: transperson out there and you're listening to people tell you
Speaker 2: how great the economy is, and you're like, what the
Speaker 2: fuck is going on the answer is that you literally
Speaker 2: do not live in the same world as assist people
Speaker 2: who are telling you this. You live in the nineteen
Speaker 2: nineteen thirty five Great Depression. So yeah, but and you know,
Speaker 2: so cutting off one of the ways that people can
Speaker 2: access medical care if they you know, can't afford it
Speaker 2: is a fucking disaster. This is going to.
Speaker 1: Do.
Speaker 2: I like, presumably if this goes through with the only
Speaker 2: way that you're going to be able to get like
Speaker 2: gender firming care if you're a kid is by having
Speaker 2: rich parents and going to like some kind of clinic
Speaker 2: that doesn't take Medicaid Medicare medicaid. Yeah, so you know
Speaker 2: what else doesn't take Medicare Medicaid? Actually who knows? I
Speaker 2: don't know. Look, it's a bad time to ad pivots. Okay,
Speaker 2: so we're back. So okay, now having gone into all
Speaker 2: of that detail, Number four is just quote pass a
Speaker 2: law prohibiting child sexual mutilation in all fifty states.
Speaker 3: So this is see, this is this is a great
Speaker 3: example of the thing I was just talking about, how
Speaker 3: like theoretically, if one was as smart ass, you'd be like, oh,
Speaker 3: so you're banning circumcision. You're like, no, of course not,
Speaker 3: because they're they're not thinking about this sort of thing.
Speaker 3: This is this is like yeah, no, it's just it's
Speaker 3: just yeah, trans kids can't get which also like almost
Speaker 3: never happens. There may be like one or two very
Speaker 3: bizarre like outliers where someone has gone through extensive therapy
Speaker 3: from a very young age that might result in them
Speaker 3: receiving such surgery at like sixteen or seventeen, but that
Speaker 3: is such a minuscule amount that that simply just does
Speaker 3: not happen. Yeah, in any real statistical notion, you know.
Speaker 2: But I mean, but this is one of these things.
Speaker 2: It's hard because it's like, okay, so like what are
Speaker 2: they actually what are they talking about? And the answer
Speaker 2: is who the fuck knows this? Cre they think this
Speaker 2: is happening? Well no, But but also like because like
Speaker 2: the you know, one of the things that they do here,
Speaker 2: right is they they'll talk about female like they'll talk
Speaker 2: about like general and mutilations like whatever, but they'll also
Speaker 2: include in that like puberty blockers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, because because to them, pauty blockers are
Speaker 3: like a chemical castration device.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's all you know, this is one of
Speaker 2: these things. But you know, but the thing I should
Speaker 2: mention about this one that is I don't know, it's
Speaker 2: something I'm short of hasident's talk about because I I
Speaker 2: don't know, like I don't like I've torn between wanting
Speaker 2: to spread panic and wanting to be like, well, this
Speaker 2: is probably what's going to happen. But there's a non
Speaker 2: zero chance that with how far this stuff has gone,
Speaker 2: they have Republicans take the House in the Senate, that
Speaker 2: this bill turns into just a full band because that's
Speaker 2: what's being pushed for now by the sort of constituencies
Speaker 2: that this stuff is four it's just like a full
Speaker 2: ban in all care. It's way less popular than even
Speaker 2: the anti transkid stuff, which is not very popular. But
Speaker 2: on the other hand, like this is I mean, this
Speaker 2: entire thing is just Trump sort of like being like yeah,
Speaker 2: sure whatever to these like these weird anti transdiptions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there certainly are a percentage of Republican politicians and
Speaker 3: like right wing influencers who do want some of these
Speaker 3: bills to expand up to just including everyone or everyone
Speaker 3: under the edge of twenty five. As as we've mentioned before,
Speaker 3: I still don't think there's it's too far off to
Speaker 3: say whether or not this is like something to actually
Speaker 3: like worry about. In any in any real sense. It's
Speaker 3: it's it's too murky.
Speaker 2: Yeah. But on the other hand, he is he is
Speaker 2: very explicit on just banning all banning care for minors,
Speaker 2: like that's this thing that he's very like, that's just
Speaker 2: in the text. Right. The next one is one of
Speaker 2: the this is like one of the sort of almost
Speaker 2: every bill that gets passed by a state legislature now
Speaker 2: has this provision that creates like quote the private right
Speaker 2: of action for victims to sue doctors for anyone who
Speaker 2: got any kind of gender for mcare as a minor.
Speaker 2: This is We've talked about this on the show before.
Speaker 2: This is this is you know, this is the thing
Speaker 2: that lets detransgrifters who think that God talks to them
Speaker 2: like try to go and destroy like doctors and clinics. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's it's one of the tactics that they use
Speaker 2: to try to like run people who they can't otherwise
Speaker 2: go after legally out of existence. So you know that
Speaker 2: that that's like a that's just a sort of normal,
Speaker 2: classic anti trans thing that they want to bring to Well.
Speaker 2: I guess the other important part of it is is
Speaker 2: having this on a national level lets them target clinics
Speaker 2: in like blue states that they otherwise normally wouldn't be
Speaker 2: able to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, that's the big goal of a lot
Speaker 3: of this federal stuff is being able to actually have
Speaker 3: an effect like New York, California, the other half of
Speaker 3: the country. Whereas because right wing governors are doing all
Speaker 3: this sort of stuff in a lot of the red states,
Speaker 3: but that is not satisfying to a lot of these people.
Speaker 3: The reason why this is being pushed on a federal
Speaker 3: level is to try to put as much pressure on
Speaker 3: blue states as they can, just out of the desire
Speaker 3: for sheer human misery.
Speaker 2: Yep, now speaking of the desire for human visery. So
Speaker 2: there is just a there is one very trump one
Speaker 2: that I've actually haven't seen before. Quote direct the Department
Speaker 2: of Justice to investigate big pharma and the big hospital
Speaker 2: networks to determine whether they deliberately covered up horrific long
Speaker 2: term side effects of quote sex transitions to get rich
Speaker 2: at the expense of vulnerable patients, or illegally marketed hormones
Speaker 2: and puberty blockers which are in no way licensed to
Speaker 2: or approved for this use.
Speaker 3: That's that's deeply funny because it's just like nothing he's
Speaker 3: saying is real.
Speaker 2: No, like, all that's fake. The long term side effects
Speaker 2: of sex transition is being extremely based and cool.
Speaker 3: But no, like there's also there's just nothing to support
Speaker 3: any of that notion. So even if the DOJ does
Speaker 3: investigate this, they're not gonna find anything because no one's
Speaker 3: trying to market testosterone or estrogen to like make money
Speaker 3: off of it.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 3: This is one thing that certain freaks at the Daily
Speaker 3: Wire try to like talk about being like, ooh, the
Speaker 3: shady pharmaceutical companies are making a most money off of estrogen.
Speaker 3: It just isn't true because most people aren't paying for
Speaker 3: estrogen anyway. They're getting it through like health insurance that
Speaker 3: the most I have to pay for is the fucking needles.
Speaker 2: Well and also and also the thing about estrogen is
Speaker 2: like the majority of the people who get aestrogen or system, yes, yes,
Speaker 2: like so.
Speaker 3: The majority of people who get testosterone are male bodybuilders.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's like, like, have you ever fucking tried to
Speaker 2: like get a like get like like even something like
Speaker 2: facial feminization surgery, which is like technically speaking, is like
Speaker 2: a fairly highly paid from when he's plastic surgeon. Do
Speaker 2: you know how long the waiting lists are for that
Speaker 2: you can't even pay them to do this to you.
Speaker 2: You have to pay them and then wait for fucking
Speaker 2: years because no one does it.
Speaker 3: It's like it's it's something that I think, coming off
Speaker 3: of like the opioid epidemic, we have certain influencers online
Speaker 3: who are trying to like find different ways to tie
Speaker 3: in big pharma to whatever thing they're currently talking about,
Speaker 3: and they're trying to do that with trans healthcare, and
Speaker 3: it's just it is honestly, it doesn't the reason why
Speaker 3: you hardly gets talked about because because it doesn't lead anywhere.
Speaker 3: It'll it'll get a passing mentioned in the What Is
Speaker 3: a Woman documentary, It'll get this passing mentioned by Trump,
Speaker 3: but like you don't actually see anything on the legislative
Speaker 3: level actually targeting this because it's just there's just nothing
Speaker 3: to do. There's nothing to investigate. Also, all of these
Speaker 3: drugs are approved and tested for all of these things.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and it happened for decades, so like it's it's
Speaker 3: it's simply not real.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, this is the thing where I mean
Speaker 2: I think the actual effect of this with DJ would
Speaker 2: just be Trump doing like random witch hunts and like
Speaker 2: going through and like rating patients files for.
Speaker 3: Shit, which like Peppa Pippa, you're not allowed, not allowed.
Speaker 2: I don't think the Trump gets this apartment is gonna
Speaker 2: give us. So well, here's the thing. Is the Supreme
Speaker 2: Court gonna stop them?
Speaker 3: No, of course this Rene Court's not gonna stop Like
Speaker 3: is such a non problem because there's just nothing to
Speaker 3: do here.
Speaker 2: Yes, but it's like I don't know, like I think
Speaker 2: the prospect of Trump realizing he could actually just do
Speaker 2: unlimited judicial tyranny and do whatever the fuck he wants
Speaker 2: in the Supreme Court, like sure seven to two will
Speaker 2: be like yeah, cops have the right to like execute
Speaker 2: trans prisoners or some shit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's not what's currently being talked.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, But I mean I I do
Speaker 2: I do think there'll be sort of like fake scare
Speaker 2: monger reinvestigations. I don't sure. I don't think it. I
Speaker 2: just don't think it'll lead a newhere.
Speaker 3: I think it's mostly just like a wild goose chase
Speaker 3: to satisfy whatever fucking person who watches too many right
Speaker 3: wing podcasts on YouTube. So like it's it's it's I
Speaker 3: don't see this as anything like super pressing.
Speaker 2: The next one I think actually could be real, depending
Speaker 2: on how motivated they are to do it. So the
Speaker 2: next one, so this is a ban on teachers and
Speaker 2: anyone who works. So this this is this is supposed
Speaker 2: to be a directive sent down from the Apartment of Education,
Speaker 2: and it it says no one who works for a school,
Speaker 2: So no teachers or any school administration can tell a
Speaker 2: kid that they might be trans and that the consequences
Speaker 2: for this are civil like civil rights like investigations into them,
Speaker 2: and also the elimination of federal funding for any school
Speaker 2: district where this happens. Okay, And that's this is effect
Speaker 2: What this effectively is is a threat to cut off
Speaker 2: federal funding from states if they don't implement what is
Speaker 2: effectively I don't say transbill that one. I think that
Speaker 2: one's going to be pretty real. It kind of depends
Speaker 2: on the extent to which the Department of Education is
Speaker 2: willing to spend a bunch of time going through individual cases.
Speaker 2: But you know, like, given that it's possible that Department
Speaker 2: of Education just gets filled with a bunch of like
Speaker 2: deranged Trump weirdos, I think there's a real chance that
Speaker 2: this one actually goes through and does stuff. Yeah, And
Speaker 2: the other thing about that one is because because that's
Speaker 2: a directive through federal agencies, he doesn't it doesn't have
Speaker 2: to go through Congress, which is sort of alarming. It's
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's one of these things where it's
Speaker 2: the question of how powerful is the federal bureaucracy going
Speaker 2: to be? And I tend to lean towards the side
Speaker 2: of the federal bureaucracy has an imense capacity to cause harm.
Speaker 2: The last part is try. He wants to get a
Speaker 2: bill in Congress that ends all recognition of their being
Speaker 2: non binary people and saying it the only genders are
Speaker 2: men and woman. So this would do things immediately like
Speaker 2: getting rid of like the ex gender marker on passports
Speaker 2: and only recognizing people to sign gender at birth, which
Speaker 2: means the government is now saying that only to like,
Speaker 2: only two genders exist, and also that the federal bureaucracy
Speaker 2: gets to assign you a gender, which is, you know,
Speaker 2: normally the exact kind of federal tyranny the Republican Party decries,
Speaker 2: but you know, they hate us, do they ever, do
Speaker 2: they ever actually decry that sort of tyranny? Federal why
Speaker 2: federal tyranny they're supposed to I think it used to
Speaker 2: be their thing.
Speaker 3: It's also less like the federal government declaring your gender.
Speaker 3: It's like whatever random doctor fills out.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, for sure, but sure, but the the but
Speaker 2: the the government now is forcing you to, in their eyes,
Speaker 2: be whatever gender that they decide that you want.
Speaker 3: Yes, And we've had we've had some stuff like this,
Speaker 3: try to get yeahs through in Europe and certain certain
Speaker 3: US states for like their own state ideas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's part. I don't know why this bill
Speaker 2: is these three things lumped together, but it's so the bill,
Speaker 2: this specific bill is this one using Title nine to
Speaker 2: stop trans women from playing in women's sports in college
Speaker 2: or in schools. Sure, and then protecting the right of
Speaker 2: the parent to keep your kid from transitioning, which is
Speaker 2: fucking So that's fascinating because protecting the right of the
Speaker 2: parent to make to have your kid not transition that
Speaker 2: that's a really interesting wording there. Yeah, well, so let
Speaker 2: me read the exactly exact wording. Is protects the rights
Speaker 2: of parents from being forced to allow their child to
Speaker 2: assume a new gender identity without the parents consent.
Speaker 3: Yes, So they're referring to the types of parental Bill
Speaker 3: of rights laws, Yeah, that have passed in at like
Speaker 3: six Republican states.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So the last one I think is really interesting
Speaker 2: and it kind of gives the game away as to
Speaker 2: what this is all, like, what the actual point of
Speaker 2: this is for someone like Trump who's not that interested,
Speaker 2: doesn't like transalle but isn't that interested. And this one,
Speaker 2: I'm okay, I'm going to read it first. As part
Speaker 2: of our new credentialing system, a credentialing body for teachers,
Speaker 2: we will promote positive education about the nuclear family, the
Speaker 2: role of mothers and fathers, and celebrating rather than erasing,
Speaker 2: the things that make men and women different and unique. Sure,
Speaker 2: so this is this is literally this is this is
Speaker 2: legislating institutional like sexism education. Yes, And you know, we've
Speaker 2: talked about the credentialing stuff. It's unclear to me how
Speaker 2: this would work because it's not it's not quite the
Speaker 2: same credentialing thing that you were talking about. But basically,
Speaker 2: this is a federal mandate that says that you can't
Speaker 2: be a teacher without teaching sexism, which.
Speaker 3: Is I'm sure, I'm sure the teachers unions will love
Speaker 3: to take that one on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, I'm i and this is one
Speaker 2: of the things that I I I don't know. I
Speaker 2: mean you have to like go into like walk in
Speaker 2: with a stick and beat them on it. But I
Speaker 2: am so excited for the Trump administration has to deal
Speaker 2: with an actual national teacher strike. Like, have fun with
Speaker 2: that one, you dip shits.
Speaker 3: This is why these types of conservatives really really hate
Speaker 3: teachers unions.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: They frame teachers unions as being like one of like
Speaker 3: the most evil lobbying forces in America because they really
Speaker 3: don't like that they don't have complete total control over
Speaker 3: teaching kids whatever kind of fucked up a nuclear family
Speaker 3: patriarchal bullshit that they want to like mandate by law.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so they're going to attempt to do They're
Speaker 2: they're they're they're going to attempt to every every They're
Speaker 2: gonna they're gonna make everyone watch a shitty Matt Walsh
Speaker 2: documentary or some ship. And if you complain about it,
Speaker 2: they they they prosecute you under the Civil Rights Act
Speaker 2: for being good luck discrimination or something. So that's that's
Speaker 2: that's that's Trump's plan to protect children from left wing
Speaker 2: gender insanity. It's really quite bad. As funny as some
Speaker 2: of it is. I mean, it's a bunch of gender
Speaker 2: firming care bands sort of stitch together with stuff trying
Speaker 2: to knock hospitals out from doing it, stitch to the
Speaker 2: just the sexism law. Very cool. Yeah, it's quite bad.
Speaker 2: Come back tomorrow for probably even worse shit. Don't remember
Speaker 2: which one is tomorrow, but you'll we'll find out when
Speaker 2: we do.
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