Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WOKAP Daily with Me
Speaker 1: your Girl, Daniel Moody, recording from the Home Bunker, Folks.
Speaker 1: On today's WOKF I am actually going to be running
Speaker 1: an episode of The Daniel Moody Show, my YouTube show
Speaker 1: that I did earlier this week, and the reason for
Speaker 1: that is that currently, as I've mentioned here on this show,
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court heard opening arguments this week on the
Speaker 1: US versus Scrimmetti case, which is a case that is
Speaker 1: based on the right of a state, the state of Tennessee,
Speaker 1: to deny transgender youth access to life saving medical treatment.
Speaker 1: And where we are is is in a country that
Speaker 1: nine unelected black robes get to decide whether or not
Speaker 1: people live or die, get to decide who is human
Speaker 1: and who is not, who is worthy of dignity and
Speaker 1: respect and who is not. And this week on The
Speaker 1: Danielle Moody Show, I made the connection between America's current
Speaker 1: gender obsession, where trans people make up one percent of
Speaker 1: the population, and yet if you were to look at
Speaker 1: the messaging that has come out of the Republican Party
Speaker 1: and the Trump campaign, you would think that they made
Speaker 1: up eighty percent of the population. With how much they
Speaker 1: have been targeted. Then you look at the ways in
Speaker 1: which the Republican MAGA Party is now embracing toxic masculinity
Speaker 1: and elevating the wife and redefining gender roles in this
Speaker 1: country at the same time that they are pushing back
Speaker 1: against those who do not subscribe to the binary. And
Speaker 1: I talk about it at length in this episode because
Speaker 1: it's a connection that is worth making, and one that
Speaker 1: isn't about whether or not you know somebody that is
Speaker 1: trans or whether you are trans yourself. It is about
Speaker 1: basic human rights and also for a party that cares
Speaker 1: so much about parental rights, apparently when it pertains to
Speaker 1: that of trans youth, parents and doctors don't know what
Speaker 1: is best, but your politicians do. When will it end?
Speaker 1: And that's the question that I pose on the Danielle
Speaker 1: Moody Show, And it was such an important episode and
Speaker 1: I received so much feedback on it that I wanted
Speaker 1: to run it here as well. Take a listen. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to be using this show to follow all
Speaker 1: of the ins and outs of what is happening over
Speaker 1: in Trump's bizarre world. When it affects us genuinely, then
Speaker 1: I will delve into those conversations, but on this show,
Speaker 1: I want us to have broader conversations really ask ourselves
Speaker 1: some questions that we may not have the answers to
Speaker 1: at this time, but it's important to ask the questions.
Speaker 1: And so the US Supreme Court heard the opening arguments
Speaker 1: in the US v. Scrimmeti case, which is challenging the
Speaker 1: States ban Tennessee's ban on treatments for transmnors. And this
Speaker 1: case is going to have a massive ripple effect across
Speaker 1: the country as it pertains to transgender rights. And you know,
Speaker 1: there are lots of folks who will tell you that, well,
Speaker 1: I don't know a trans person, or this doesn't affect me,
Speaker 1: or you know, I'm not concerned. And I will tell
Speaker 1: you that whenever you hear about a case that is
Speaker 1: going to decide the future health and well being and
Speaker 1: safety of another community that you may not be a
Speaker 1: part of, you should pay attention because, like we've been saying,
Speaker 1: first they come for right the Martinia molar poem. First,
Speaker 1: they come for the low hanging fruit, the people that
Speaker 1: they think that no one cares about or that they
Speaker 1: will have common discrimination with, and that is trans people
Speaker 1: in this country. Because whether you speak with people in
Speaker 1: the black community, white folks, working class, Muslims, Christians, what
Speaker 1: have you. What there seems to be consensus around is
Speaker 1: transgender identity. So I want to provide a little bit
Speaker 1: of insight into this case. Why it matters so deeply
Speaker 1: to me, and what came up as I was reading
Speaker 1: and kind of putting together today's show is that America
Speaker 1: is obsessed with gender and gender roles and trans people.
Speaker 1: The reason why, folks, before I get into the case,
Speaker 1: the reason why there is all of this pushback and
Speaker 1: angst and discrimination and policies and weaponization of bathrooms is
Speaker 1: because I recognize, I believe that transgender people pose a
Speaker 1: threat to conservatives because if gender roles and gender see
Speaker 1: stereotypes no longer apply, then they lose their power. Then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, we start talking about people as
Speaker 1: actual people and the roles that we want them to
Speaker 1: play in our partnerships, in our households and our families
Speaker 1: based on who that person is, not what their identity is.
Speaker 1: And what this all boils down to, folks, is about power,
Speaker 1: power over rather than power with. And if now you
Speaker 1: have young people coming home and saying that they identify
Speaker 1: as LGBTQ, largely because for them, for Generation Z and Alpha,
Speaker 1: presenting as LGBTQ or calling themselves queer is more aligned
Speaker 1: with their political identity than it is with their gender identity.
Speaker 1: It's to showcase the fluidity with regard to their thinking
Speaker 1: and the fact that they recognize that we don't live
Speaker 1: or have to live and operate inside of a binary
Speaker 1: and so who would we all be if we were
Speaker 1: not prescribed our roles literally from the womb the moment
Speaker 1: that a baby comes out, blue hat or pink hat,
Speaker 1: now it's blue, pink, and white. You go down any
Speaker 1: children's toy aisle, you see very clearly based on the
Speaker 1: pastelles versus the primary colors, who you're supposed to get
Speaker 1: a gift for the boy or the girl. And what
Speaker 1: we have realized over times is that all of this
Speaker 1: has been prescribed to us, and it all has its
Speaker 1: foundation in religious doctrinization. So what does it mean then
Speaker 1: for people to exist free in their own skin, in
Speaker 1: their own body and say that if my gender that
Speaker 1: was provided to me at birth does not match how
Speaker 1: I feel and who I am, and I'm saying to you,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you this is who I am. Why does
Speaker 1: anyone get to tell them? No? If I say my
Speaker 1: name is Danielle, refer to me as such, and then
Speaker 1: you turn around and tell me, well, you look like
Speaker 1: a Mary, so I'm gonna call you Mary. How does
Speaker 1: it the person that has decided to change my name?
Speaker 1: How do they have more power to identify me than
Speaker 1: I do to identify myself? This is basic shit, folks,
Speaker 1: like this is basic things. If I am telling you
Speaker 1: who I am, who are you to tell me who
Speaker 1: you think I am? And to me, that's what this
Speaker 1: case is. That's what this is about. You can run
Speaker 1: it down whatever legal lines you want to right, whether
Speaker 1: it violates equal protection, whether it violates parental consent, whether
Speaker 1: this that or the other thing. But when you drill
Speaker 1: down to the fundamentals of what is at stake in
Speaker 1: this case, it is who gets to dictate their personhood
Speaker 1: the person who is telling you this is how I feel,
Speaker 1: this is who I am, or the other person living
Speaker 1: outside of that body that gets to tell you what
Speaker 1: you can and can't do with that body and how
Speaker 1: that body will be identified. It doesn't make any sense
Speaker 1: when it's said very plainly like that. The case was
Speaker 1: broad discrammatic case was brought by three trans youth and
Speaker 1: their parents last year, and they argue that the law
Speaker 1: violates the equal Protection clause of the fourteenth Amendment because
Speaker 1: of sex based discrimination. The decision in the case, which
Speaker 1: is expected in June, could have sweeping implications for trans
Speaker 1: youth across the country. According to the Human Rights Campaign,
Speaker 1: twenty six states have passed bans on gender affirming care,
Speaker 1: affecting thirty nine point four percent of trans youth in
Speaker 1: this country. So I want to unpack for a moment
Speaker 1: why this case is important and I want this is
Speaker 1: its very small print, but I want to offer it
Speaker 1: up to you also I will read it. This is
Speaker 1: about transgender or non binary youth having access to medically
Speaker 1: necessary care, services and treatments commonly provided to cisgender youth
Speaker 1: that their doctors have prescribed to them to treat their
Speaker 1: gender dysphoria and improve their physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing.
Speaker 1: Not having this care results in devastating consequences for their
Speaker 1: health and well being. This life saving care has been
Speaker 1: approved by the major medical associations and has been scientifically
Speaker 1: proven to be safe and effective. So, once again, friends,
Speaker 1: once again we have politicians playing doctor and telling us
Speaker 1: that those that actually went to medical school, those who
Speaker 1: actually have a degree in medicine, and are telling you
Speaker 1: that the care that is being issued for young trans
Speaker 1: youth is medically necessary and safe. Who are these politicians
Speaker 1: to come in and now say these doctors are wrong?
Speaker 1: So take it again, Roe v. Wade, nine unelected black
Speaker 1: robes got to DECI that women in this country, people
Speaker 1: with uteruses in this country no longer have bodily autonomy.
Speaker 1: For fifty years, abortion had been the law of the land,
Speaker 1: had been certified and safe because abortions are not just
Speaker 1: used for quote unquote unwanted pregnancies, they are also used
Speaker 1: as a part of reproductive care, full stop. And we
Speaker 1: are watching right now as women across the country that
Speaker 1: are in these red states are dying, are miscarrying, are
Speaker 1: bleeding out, are being forced to carry non viable pregnancies,
Speaker 1: and then listen as those babies gasp for air for
Speaker 1: hours before they die. When we said my body, my choice,
Speaker 1: it does not matter whether you are cisgender or transgender.
Speaker 1: It matters that you are and that you should have
Speaker 1: a say in your own goddamn life. And I just
Speaker 1: I woke up today and I said, my god, when
Speaker 1: will there come a time when humans are not being
Speaker 1: dictated to about who is human and who is not,
Speaker 1: who is deserving of dignity and who is not, Who
Speaker 1: should have life saving treatment and who shouldn't. Why is
Speaker 1: this something that is up for debate? And frankly, friends,
Speaker 1: if your life write it. If you don't know what
Speaker 1: it is like to wait with baited breath for nine
Speaker 1: unelected judges to decide your future, then you are a
Speaker 1: part of the oppressive class. You are the mainstream. Because
Speaker 1: my god, folks, from the fucking constitutional convention that decided
Speaker 1: that black people were only three fifths of human to
Speaker 1: the dread Scott decision to Plusy versus Ferguson, to Brown
Speaker 1: versus Board, to Roe v. Wade, to now the scrematic case,
Speaker 1: it is all the same. It is about the majority
Speaker 1: getting to dictate to the minority who is deserving and
Speaker 1: who is not. So all of a sudden, folks, the
Speaker 1: same conservatives that want to talk to you about parental
Speaker 1: rights and oh, your parents should have a right to
Speaker 1: say who gets to read what book and who gets
Speaker 1: to be in what curriculum, and parents writes, parents writes, Well,
Speaker 1: these parents of transgender youth are saying, we're listening to
Speaker 1: our kids, and our kids want the care, and our
Speaker 1: doctors say that the care is necessary because guess what
Speaker 1: they would rather their child be trans than dead. But
Speaker 1: politicians are telling you what you should be doing with
Speaker 1: your child. So conservatives want to have it multiple ways,
Speaker 1: not just two ways. They want to have it multiple ways.
Speaker 1: It's parents' rights so long as it is about taking
Speaker 1: other people's rights away and access away. But when it
Speaker 1: is about granting rights and listening to people and extending
Speaker 1: kindness and decency, then all of a sudden, politicians must
Speaker 1: intervene on your behalf because now parents don't know any better.
Speaker 1: This is the shit that is driving me crazy, and frankly,
Speaker 1: it should be driving all of us crazy. And you
Speaker 1: should not need to know somebody that is trans to
Speaker 1: give a damn about what the Supreme Court is doing
Speaker 1: and will decide with their six to three MAGA majority
Speaker 1: because it won't stop with trans folks. What will be next?
Speaker 1: And so here I want to read what would be
Speaker 1: the imp locations of this case and its decision. There
Speaker 1: are a range of different outcomes that are foreseeable in
Speaker 1: a final ruling. A ruling in favor of the families
Speaker 1: would return the case to the lower courts to apply
Speaker 1: the appropriate standard of review for improper sex based classifications.
Speaker 1: If the court upholds the ban, the Tennessee law would
Speaker 1: remain in effect, depriving transminers from receiving hormone therapy, green
Speaker 1: lighting similar bands already enacted in other states twenty six
Speaker 1: and potentially emboldening even more states to pass similarly restrictive
Speaker 1: laws and perhaps even more draconian bands. However, this case
Speaker 1: is decided, it is likely to have significant impact on
Speaker 1: how much deference courts give to bands on medical care
Speaker 1: to treat gender dysphoria. Folks. Then, what's next, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what comes next. What comes next will be birth control.
Speaker 1: It'll start with youth. Oh, women, girls under a certain
Speaker 1: age can't receive birth control, right, which already happens in
Speaker 1: some states. I'm sure of it. You need parental consent.
Speaker 1: Da Da Da da da. Then they'll say, well, no,
Speaker 1: now you don't need parental consent. We're saying that no
Speaker 1: one under the age of say, seventeen eighteen will be
Speaker 1: able to access birth control. You'll let these things enter.
Speaker 1: When do they end it's transgender youth today, it's SIS
Speaker 1: youth tomorrow, and then it's all of us. It really
Speaker 1: is terrifying. And when you look at the numbers, folks,
Speaker 1: because this is something that is also incredibly important, transgender
Speaker 1: youth report its significantly increased rates of depression and victimization
Speaker 1: compared to their cisgender peers. Notably, in the past year,
Speaker 1: one in three transgender youth reported attempted suicide. Folks, listen
Speaker 1: to this. Let me say that again. Notably, in the
Speaker 1: past year, one in three transgender youth reported attempting suicide,
Speaker 1: almost one third reported being a victim of sexual violence,
Speaker 1: and more than half reported a two week period of depression. Folks,
Speaker 1: how is this okay? Seriously considering suicide in the past year,
Speaker 1: sixteen percent of cisgender youth, while forty four percent of
Speaker 1: trans youth felt sad or hopeless for two weeks or more.
Speaker 1: In the past year, thirty percent of cisgender kids, fifty
Speaker 1: three percent of trans kids. This should not be acceptable.
Speaker 1: And so when you hear that this case is happening,
Speaker 1: and I will tell you that Chase Strangio, who is
Speaker 1: the lawyer for ACLU, who is also on the team
Speaker 1: presiding over this case is the first openly transperson to
Speaker 1: argue before the Supreme Court and use his own life
Speaker 1: and the life saving hormones and therapy and medical intervention
Speaker 1: that he received that allows him to be standing before
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court to argue for the ability of trans
Speaker 1: youth to have a future, because that is what this
Speaker 1: is about. We do not know what it is like
Speaker 1: to exist inside of a body that you feel like
Speaker 1: is betraying you on a day to day basis, to
Speaker 1: be victimized, to be her rest. Just this week, Model
Speaker 1: of the Year was given to a trans model. You
Speaker 1: see folks like Laverne Cox, transactress. You see people in
Speaker 1: prominent positions and you want to believe that we are
Speaker 1: headed in the right direction. But folks, we are not.
Speaker 1: Those people are the exception, not the rule. After the election,
Speaker 1: the Trevor Project where I got this data from. The
Speaker 1: Trevor Project is an LGBTQ organization that works to decrease
Speaker 1: suicide and mental health issues that regularly plague the LGBTQ community.
Speaker 1: They have a hotline and that hotline folks had a
Speaker 1: six hour wait following the election because the youth, the
Speaker 1: queer youth of this country watched as America voted against them.
Speaker 1: They are watching as folks like Nancy Mace put into
Speaker 1: effect bathroom bands for a duly elected member of Congress
Speaker 1: to embarrass her. Our children are watching, and what we
Speaker 1: are showing them is that their lives do not matter.
Speaker 1: I remember and I participated in that It Gets Better
Speaker 1: campaign in the early two thousands because there had been
Speaker 1: a rash of high profile suicides of young queer kids
Speaker 1: who were being bullied to death and who were going
Speaker 1: home and they were hanging themselves, they were cutting themselves,
Speaker 1: and a bunch of queer adults, celebrities, advocates, activists started
Speaker 1: that it Gets Better project to show them that life
Speaker 1: gets better. To hang in there. School. Maybe Top high
Speaker 1: school may be rough, but like you will make it
Speaker 1: to the other side. You can get married, you can
Speaker 1: be successful, you can find love even if it is
Speaker 1: not in your home. And now, years later, can we
Speaker 1: honestly tell them that things get better when half of
Speaker 1: this country, half of the states, have voted to ensure
Speaker 1: that they will never receive the care that they need,
Speaker 1: the interventions that they need to live a full, complete
Speaker 1: and abundant life. That half of this country said that
Speaker 1: they are undeserving of life, which is why not only
Speaker 1: are suicide rates high for the trans community, but murder
Speaker 1: rates as well. It is this obsession with gender and
Speaker 1: a binary that has us here rules that were made
Speaker 1: up in order to control people and to keep them
Speaker 1: in their place. It is not an accident that at
Speaker 1: a time when we are talking about and having arguments
Speaker 1: about and debates about the existence of trans people, that
Speaker 1: you also are watching this unfold on social media, this
Speaker 1: return of the traditional wife, now with a hot new
Speaker 1: handle as a trad wife taken over TikTok. You think
Speaker 1: you're watching a video about a woman baking bread from scratch,
Speaker 1: like many people did during the pandemic, and then you
Speaker 1: find out, oh no, there's a whole maga, fucking white
Speaker 1: Christian nationalist agenda all under it. So again, at a
Speaker 1: time when youth are seeing the opportunity to break outside
Speaker 1: of these binaries, where they are seeing women in positions
Speaker 1: of power and people and positions of power right, and
Speaker 1: people being able to own their personhood, this is what
Speaker 1: the pushback looks like, folks. It looks like reminding women
Speaker 1: of their roles, reminding men that your job is to
Speaker 1: provide and get the bacon and be strong and do this,
Speaker 1: that this is what you're seeing. The pushback to inclusive
Speaker 1: gender identity and acceptance is toxic masculinity and this shit.
Speaker 1: And so you know, I bring this to folks' attention
Speaker 1: because I don't think that people make these connections on
Speaker 1: a regular basis. Right between what is happening with the
Speaker 1: pushback and the weaponization of identity and then this miraculous
Speaker 1: creation of the triad wife and celebration of them, Hannah Nielman,
Speaker 1: eight kids, more men, living on a three hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty eight acre farm, the Ballerina Farm, because she was
Speaker 1: once in Juliad and Juilliard until you know, she found
Speaker 1: her husband, whose father, by the way, owns Jet Blue,
Speaker 1: so they're not poor by any stretch of the imagination,
Speaker 1: and she uses her I think it's twenty two million
Speaker 1: people follow her. Twenty two million people. Some follow her
Speaker 1: because they like her, some follow her because they hate her,
Speaker 1: while she tends to her eight children and bakes bread
Speaker 1: and milks the cows, showing you, you know that you
Speaker 1: don't need to be all concerned and worried about what
Speaker 1: feminism is. Just tend to your man, and this is
Speaker 1: what they say. The traad wives online lives are a
Speaker 1: pleasant parade of floaty dresses and appealingly rustic accompanied by
Speaker 1: voiceover monologues about home simplicity, God and of course husbands
Speaker 1: who protect and provide and lead the household by example
Speaker 1: are the tradwives. Okay, wonder some onlookers, while others consume
Speaker 1: video after video wistful for a quiet life of butter churning. Now,
Speaker 1: don't get it twisted. I too have fantasies of leaving
Speaker 1: New York City and going up state and making fucking
Speaker 1: jam and like you know, live in a slower life.
Speaker 1: But it is. It is based on the fact that
Speaker 1: New York is filled with prenetic energy, and I don't
Speaker 1: want to burn out and drop dead, right, But there
Speaker 1: is a difference between a life of quiet and jam
Speaker 1: and being told that you need to have a football
Speaker 1: team sized family and that the man is the head
Speaker 1: of the household and whatever he says goes, and all
Speaker 1: you have to do is push out children and churn butter.
Speaker 1: There's a big difference between those things. And so I
Speaker 1: am thankful for Tia Levings, who wrote an incredibly important
Speaker 1: memoir entitled The Well Trained Wife and the Howering memoir
Speaker 1: about the trad wife that she says fans need to
Speaker 1: know here's a little insight into it. Levings decided to
Speaker 1: write A Well Trained Wife in the late twenty tens
Speaker 1: in response to the politically motivated way extreme Christian views
Speaker 1: were going mainstream. When she recognized that the members of
Speaker 1: her fundamentalist Christian community wanted to quote to run our
Speaker 1: country the way they run their homes, she writes, quote,
Speaker 1: I suddenly realize why it mattered so much that I
Speaker 1: talk about what it's like in those households. I could
Speaker 1: tell the public what it's really like and guess what, folks,
Speaker 1: it wasn't, you know, like the voiceover monologues of the
Speaker 1: pretty thin white women mother of seventy five who is
Speaker 1: milking cows and carrying eggs. No, it was filled with
Speaker 1: abuse and battery. A Well Trained Wife effectively establishes how
Speaker 1: extreme religions so wholly indoctrinate their followers by isolating them.
Speaker 1: Early born in the mid nineteen seventies and brought up
Speaker 1: attending a Baptist church in Jacksonville, Florida, Levings was taught
Speaker 1: to mistrust the outside world with its abundance of information
Speaker 1: and technology. Cancer church leaders told her was a punishment
Speaker 1: for the sins of huge humans. The nineteen eighty six
Speaker 1: Challenger space shuttle explosion was the natural consequences of quote
Speaker 1: scientists playing god. The United Nations was already plotting a
Speaker 1: future one world government that would arrest and torture people
Speaker 1: left behind in the rapture folks. What her book laid out,
Speaker 1: and I had the opportunity to interview her a couple
Speaker 1: of months ago was terrifying because she was like from
Speaker 1: a young age, from birth, she was taught the roles
Speaker 1: that women have you. When you're young, your father is
Speaker 1: in charge, then when you get older, your husband is
Speaker 1: in charge. And above all that the church is in charge.
Speaker 1: And she talked about the beatings, she talked about the
Speaker 1: sexual assault, but all of this being sanitized and filtered
Speaker 1: through the lens of the tradwife telling young women, you
Speaker 1: shouldn't want to go and get that degree, You shouldn't
Speaker 1: aspire to do anything other then be a mother. What
Speaker 1: did they say at the turning point one of those
Speaker 1: conservative conferences, a young woman stood up and said that
Speaker 1: she was trying to decide whether or not she should
Speaker 1: follow her dreams of being a surgeon or you know,
Speaker 1: being a mother, because she doesn't feel like she has
Speaker 1: the ability to do both. And what did the men
Speaker 1: tell her? To go hold a baby and then come
Speaker 1: back And if that doesn't move you, then by all means,
Speaker 1: go be a surgeon. So how does this tie into
Speaker 1: the fight for trans writes because all of this, fundamentally,
Speaker 1: dear friends, is about control and creating a society where
Speaker 1: freedom of thought, freedom of body doesn't exist, where you
Speaker 1: are dictated to and your life is not your own.
Speaker 1: And what that sounds like to me is another form
Speaker 1: of slavery. Because if I don't have the ability to
Speaker 1: have self determination, then what am I? Self determination is
Speaker 1: the basis of being human, the ability to decide who, when,
Speaker 1: where and how you live. And if we are telling
Speaker 1: women now we're taking that power away from you. We're
Speaker 1: telling people, young people, no, you don't get to tell
Speaker 1: us who you are and how to treat you. We're
Speaker 1: telling you who you are and how we're going to
Speaker 1: treat you. How do we call ourselves? And continue to
Speaker 1: even muse on this idea that we live inside of
Speaker 1: a free democracy that has freedom of expression and thought
Speaker 1: and that we have the ability to pursue our own happiness.
Speaker 1: Those are what is given to us inside of the Constitution,
Speaker 1: and what this Maga Supreme Court is doing is taking
Speaker 1: away our rights, one decision at a time, redefining who
Speaker 1: we get to be and how we get to show up. So, folks, again,
Speaker 1: you do not need to know somebody that is trans
Speaker 1: in order to stand for trans rights, because at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, it is about our right to
Speaker 1: be human, to exist on our own terms, to have
Speaker 1: self determination, to have the ability to pursue our happiness,
Speaker 1: to live full, free and abundant lives. That's what these
Speaker 1: cases are about. And no one should have the ability
Speaker 1: to decide that other than you. So when we decide
Speaker 1: to divide ourselves off to cists over here and trans
Speaker 1: over here, black over there, and Latino over there, Muslim
Speaker 1: over here and Christian over here, able bodied over here
Speaker 1: and disability over here, we fracture ourselves from our humanity.
Speaker 1: And then we trick ourselves into believing that, oh, since
Speaker 1: they didn't call out my group this time, I'm safe.
Speaker 1: Your number is coming. Trust and believe. So do not
Speaker 1: sit oddly and quietly by hoping and praying that your
Speaker 1: number isn't called. Make your voices heard, make them loud
Speaker 1: and determined, regardless of whether or not you that day
Speaker 1: are on the chopping block, because your day and your
Speaker 1: number will come. We need to fight for each other.
Speaker 1: We need to fight for everyone's right to exist, free
Speaker 1: from oppression, free from discrimination. Right now, trans people, the
Speaker 1: trans community is under attack. There have been hundreds, hundreds
Speaker 1: of policies that have been introduced to ban them from existence.
Speaker 1: Sure it starts with bathrooms, and then it's sports, and
Speaker 1: then it's workplaces, and then it's movie theaters, and then
Speaker 1: it's stay home. Then it's they're dangerous. We cannot let
Speaker 1: this happen. So I implore all of you, if you
Speaker 1: have resources, think about donating to places like the Trevor Project.
Speaker 1: Think about donating to places like the ACLU who are
Speaker 1: literally fighting for our civil liberties. Think about donating to
Speaker 1: places like the Transgender Law Center to Family Equality. These
Speaker 1: are organizations who work tirelessly to make sure that LGBTQ
Speaker 1: folks live in a country free from discrimination and are
Speaker 1: safe and able to live their lives. Think about joining
Speaker 1: a group as an ally because we need more like
Speaker 1: minded people that are willing to stand up for all people.
Speaker 1: I will say this. When it is Muslims that are
Speaker 1: being attacked, I will say it, and I said it
Speaker 1: when it was Haitian immigrants that are being attacked, right
Speaker 1: when it is women and people with uteruses under attack.
Speaker 1: We have power in our voice and our collective action.
Speaker 1: You can contact your representatives to make sure that they
Speaker 1: haven't signed on to these bullshit bathroom bills that Nancy
Speaker 1: Mace and Johnson are pushing in the House. You can
Speaker 1: call up these senators and your representatives and ask them
Speaker 1: where do you stand on transgender rights and the rights
Speaker 1: of humanity. These are your representatives. They answer to you.
Speaker 1: We are all connected because we are all human and
Speaker 1: regardless of how we live, how we look, whom we love,
Speaker 1: we all want fundamentally the same things. To be healthy,
Speaker 1: to be safe, to be happy. How we go about
Speaker 1: those different ways, so long as it doesn't hurt or
Speaker 1: harm other people, as Tim Wall said, is none of
Speaker 1: our goddamn business. Freedom is our business, and not freedom too,
Speaker 1: but freedom with that is it for me today. Dear
Speaker 1: friends on WOKF as always power to the people and
Speaker 1: to all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke
Speaker 1: as fuck,