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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WOKAP Daily with Me

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Speaker 1: your Girl, Daniel Moody, recording from the Home Bunker, Folks.

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Speaker 1: On today's WOKF I am actually going to be running

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Speaker 1: an episode of The Daniel Moody Show, my YouTube show

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Speaker 1: that I did earlier this week, and the reason for

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Speaker 1: that is that currently, as I've mentioned here on this show,

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Speaker 1: the Supreme Court heard opening arguments this week on the

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Speaker 1: US versus Scrimmetti case, which is a case that is

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Speaker 1: based on the right of a state, the state of Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: to deny transgender youth access to life saving medical treatment.

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Speaker 1: And where we are is is in a country that

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Speaker 1: nine unelected black robes get to decide whether or not

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Speaker 1: people live or die, get to decide who is human

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Speaker 1: and who is not, who is worthy of dignity and

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Speaker 1: respect and who is not. And this week on The

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Speaker 1: Danielle Moody Show, I made the connection between America's current

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Speaker 1: gender obsession, where trans people make up one percent of

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Speaker 1: the population, and yet if you were to look at

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Speaker 1: the messaging that has come out of the Republican Party

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Speaker 1: and the Trump campaign, you would think that they made

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Speaker 1: up eighty percent of the population. With how much they

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Speaker 1: have been targeted. Then you look at the ways in

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Speaker 1: which the Republican MAGA Party is now embracing toxic masculinity

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Speaker 1: and elevating the wife and redefining gender roles in this

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Speaker 1: country at the same time that they are pushing back

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Speaker 1: against those who do not subscribe to the binary. And

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Speaker 1: I talk about it at length in this episode because

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Speaker 1: it's a connection that is worth making, and one that

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Speaker 1: isn't about whether or not you know somebody that is

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Speaker 1: trans or whether you are trans yourself. It is about

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Speaker 1: basic human rights and also for a party that cares

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Speaker 1: so much about parental rights, apparently when it pertains to

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Speaker 1: that of trans youth, parents and doctors don't know what

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Speaker 1: is best, but your politicians do. When will it end?

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Speaker 1: And that's the question that I pose on the Danielle

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Speaker 1: Moody Show, And it was such an important episode and

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Speaker 1: I received so much feedback on it that I wanted

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Speaker 1: to run it here as well. Take a listen. I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to be using this show to follow all

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Speaker 1: of the ins and outs of what is happening over

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Speaker 1: in Trump's bizarre world. When it affects us genuinely, then

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Speaker 1: I will delve into those conversations, but on this show,

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Speaker 1: I want us to have broader conversations really ask ourselves

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Speaker 1: some questions that we may not have the answers to

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Speaker 1: at this time, but it's important to ask the questions.

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Speaker 1: And so the US Supreme Court heard the opening arguments

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Speaker 1: in the US v. Scrimmeti case, which is challenging the

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Speaker 1: States ban Tennessee's ban on treatments for transmnors. And this

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Speaker 1: case is going to have a massive ripple effect across

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Speaker 1: the country as it pertains to transgender rights. And you know,

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Speaker 1: there are lots of folks who will tell you that, well,

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Speaker 1: or you know, I'm not concerned. And I will tell

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Speaker 1: you that whenever you hear about a case that is

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Speaker 1: going to decide the future health and well being and

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Speaker 1: part of, you should pay attention because, like we've been saying,

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Speaker 1: first they come for right the Martinia molar poem. First,

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Speaker 1: they come for the low hanging fruit, the people that

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Speaker 1: in this country. Because whether you speak with people in

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Speaker 1: transgender identity. So I want to provide a little bit

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Speaker 1: of insight into this case. Why it matters so deeply

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Speaker 1: The reason why, folks, before I get into the case,

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Speaker 1: the reason why there is all of this pushback and

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Speaker 1: because I recognize, I believe that transgender people pose a

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Speaker 1: based on who that person is, not what their identity is.

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Speaker 1: And what this all boils down to, folks, is about power,

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Speaker 1: power over rather than power with. And if now you

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Speaker 1: It's to showcase the fluidity with regard to their thinking

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Speaker 1: we have realized over times is that all of this

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Speaker 1: foundation in religious doctrinization. So what does it mean then

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Speaker 1: for people to exist free in their own skin, in

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Speaker 1: anyone get to tell them? No? If I say my

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Speaker 1: a Mary, so I'm gonna call you Mary. How does

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Speaker 1: it the person that has decided to change my name?

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Speaker 1: How do they have more power to identify me than

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Speaker 1: like this is basic things. If I am telling you

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Speaker 1: this case, it is who gets to dictate their personhood

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Speaker 1: when it's said very plainly like that. The case was

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Speaker 1: Not having this care results in devastating consequences for their

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Speaker 1: So take it again, Roe v. Wade, nine unelected black

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Speaker 1: For fifty years, abortion had been the law of the land,

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Speaker 1: used for quote unquote unwanted pregnancies, they are also used

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Speaker 1: It matters that you are and that you should have

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Speaker 1: This is the shit that is driving me crazy, and frankly,

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Speaker 1: and will decide with their six to three MAGA majority

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Speaker 1: because it won't stop with trans folks. What will be next?

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Speaker 1: And so here I want to read what would be

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Speaker 1: the imp locations of this case and its decision. There

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Speaker 1: If the court upholds the ban, the Tennessee law would

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Speaker 1: number will come. We need to fight for each other.

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Speaker 1: We need to fight for everyone's right to exist, free

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Speaker 1: from oppression, free from discrimination. Right now, trans people, the

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Speaker 1: trans community is under attack. There have been hundreds, hundreds

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Speaker 1: of policies that have been introduced to ban them from existence.

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Speaker 1: Sure it starts with bathrooms, and then it's sports, and

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Speaker 1: then it's workplaces, and then it's movie theaters, and then

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Speaker 1: it's stay home. Then it's they're dangerous. We cannot let

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Speaker 1: this happen. So I implore all of you, if you

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Speaker 1: have resources, think about donating to places like the Trevor Project.

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Speaker 1: Think about donating to places like the ACLU who are

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Speaker 1: places like the Transgender Law Center to Family Equality. These

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Speaker 1: folks live in a country free from discrimination and are

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Speaker 1: safe and able to live their lives. Think about joining

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Speaker 1: a group as an ally because we need more like

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Speaker 1: minded people that are willing to stand up for all people.

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Speaker 1: I will say this. When it is Muslims that are

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Speaker 1: being attacked, I will say it, and I said it

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Speaker 1: when it was Haitian immigrants that are being attacked, right

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Speaker 1: when it is women and people with uteruses under attack.

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Speaker 1: We have power in our voice and our collective action.

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Speaker 1: You can contact your representatives to make sure that they

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Speaker 1: haven't signed on to these bullshit bathroom bills that Nancy

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Speaker 1: where do you stand on transgender rights and the rights

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Speaker 1: of humanity. These are your representatives. They answer to you.

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Speaker 1: We are all connected because we are all human and

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Speaker 1: regardless of how we live, how we look, whom we love,

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Speaker 1: we all want fundamentally the same things. To be healthy,

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Speaker 1: to be safe, to be happy. How we go about

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Speaker 1: those different ways, so long as it doesn't hurt or

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Speaker 1: harm other people, as Tim Wall said, is none of

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Speaker 1: our goddamn business. Freedom is our business, and not freedom too,

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Speaker 1: but freedom with that is it for me today. Dear

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Speaker 1: friends on WOKF as always power to the people and

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Speaker 1: to all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke

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Speaker 1: as fuck,