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0:00great great to be here how you guys
0:02doing good well
0:05as you may have noticed we live in a
0:07culture a country that has entirely lost
0:09its mind
0:11I thought I'd start with the good news
0:13we are living through a period of mass
0:15psychosis that is very truly
0:18unprecedented in the history of human
0:19civilization
0:21most speakers start with jokes and
0:23things but I just dive right into it
0:25Let's see we don't have a lot of time
0:27let's just get to the get to the news
0:28here
0:29it seems as though all at once millions
0:32of our countrymen woke up one day having
0:34forgot some of the most basic facts
0:36about reality like a giant epidemic of
0:39the weirdest sort of amnesia and lying
0:42at the heart of this intellectual chaos
0:44is the confusion or the apparent
0:46confusion anyway about identity
0:51human biology gender a mental disease
0:55called gender ideology has gripped hold
0:57of a large swath of the American public
0:59totally taken over our public
1:01institutions the Disciples of this cult
1:04have been convinced or pretend to have
1:06been convinced that men are women and
1:08women are men that men can have babies
1:10and women can have penises that a woman
1:13can impregnate a man who can then give
1:15birth to it to and breastfeed a
1:17genderless child
1:19that somehow the most basic facts of
1:21reality and of biology facts which all
1:24people everywhere across the world for
1:25thousands and thousands of years all
1:27recognize intuitively are no longer
1:29valid
1:30it is total Madness and it is a Madness
1:33that has infected our society and is now
1:34threatening to tear it apart at the
1:36seams I believe
1:37and it's for this reason that we decided
1:39that we had to make our film last year
1:40called what is a woman as mentioned
1:42introduction Which documents my
1:44year-long effort to confront and expose
1:47gender ideology our goal broadly was to
1:50explore gender ideology to show it for
1:52what it is but as the title suggests
1:54this larger goal centered around one
1:55seemingly quite simple and specific
1:57question which is what is a woman
2:00now backing up a few years it occurred
2:02to me sometime shortly after Bruce
2:04Jenner became Caitlyn and was
2:07immediately declared woman of the year
2:11and then eventually became a
2:12conservative commentator on Fox News
2:17lots of strange transitions happening in
2:19this person's life
2:21anyway when that first happened it it
2:22became apparent to me that the word
2:24woman ceases to have any meaning if a
2:26guy named Bruce can be considered one
2:28the word man too is emptied of meaning
2:31it occurred to me also this is a major
2:33problem for the left for people
2:34promoting this agenda because if the
2:36word woman no longer means adult human
2:38female then what exactly does it
2:41actually mean and if the left cannot
2:43tell us what it means then how can they
2:45use the word and if they can't use the
2:47word then how can they do things like
2:48have women's marches and talk about
2:50women's rights or say anything about
2:52women at all indeed how can a man say I
2:55identify as a woman if the word woman
2:57doesn't mean anything it's about as
2:58meaningful as saying I identify as a
3:00flipper doodle or a who's he wants it
3:03how can anyone identify as gibberish and
3:06if they do how are we supposed to affirm
3:08and respect gibberish
3:11I could not affirm gibberish even if I
3:14wanted to and I don't want to and I
3:17won't
3:18so it became obvious to me that this
3:20question what is a woman presents an
3:21insurmountable logical problem for the
3:23left and so I kept asking the question
3:24and asking it and asking it and in every
3:27Forum available to me which was mostly
3:29just Twitter
3:31and they simply ignored the question to
3:32the extent that they could and They
3:33carried on pretending like their
3:35worldview was not fatally incoherent and
3:37self-contradictory and after years of
3:39this game of them ducking and dodging
3:40the question I finally decided that it
3:42was time to take this query to them to
3:44put it in front of their faces confront
3:45them with it directly
3:48confront them with the incoherence of
3:51their beliefs
3:52and so began a quest that took us all
3:54over the country even halfway around the
3:55world to Kenya and to some other regions
3:58of the third world like Los Angeles
4:01and
4:02we spoke to alleged experts you know
4:05doctors therapists professors surgeons
4:07we spoke to trans people themselves we
4:09spoke to uh activists we spoke to
4:11politicians we spoke to average people
4:13on the street
4:14we spoke to a naked guy walking down the
4:17street in San Francisco
4:20because they literally walk around naked
4:22and that's it I don't know if you knew
4:23that
4:24it was news to me
4:26you spoke to politicians we spoke to
4:27average uh you know we spoke to nomadic
4:30tribesmen living in Huts made out of cow
4:31dung we spoke to everybody who would
4:33speak to us
4:35surprisingly only once did I have to use
4:37a bullhorn during this whole time
4:39and I learned quite a bit through this
4:41extraordinary and often bewildering and
4:43disturbing Adventure some of what I
4:45learned came as a revelation
4:47other lessons I think simply emphasized
4:49and Illustrated what I already knew
4:51but in either case it was enlightening
4:53uh for me
4:55and
4:57it was a time you know fully immersed in
4:59the most vile and toxic lunacy that the
5:02world has ever known
5:03at the end of it all we return back to a
5:06truth that I of course already knew
5:08before we started
5:09that your biological identity is innate
5:12it is determined for you before you are
5:16born
5:17this is a decision that was made by
5:19powers
5:20more powerful than any one of us
5:22individually
5:24you're either man or woman you don't get
5:25to choose which category you belong to
5:27you don't get to switch from one
5:29category to another
5:30your category does not depend on your
5:33acceptance of it or agreement with it
5:37so you could say oh I don't
5:39I don't feel like I am that I don't want
5:42to be that
5:43but that is actually practically
5:45speaking irrelevant
5:48your self-perception May conflict with
5:50yourself reality with your uh you know
5:53your ideas about yourself but the former
5:56cannot change the latter it is possible
6:00for a person to perceive themselves to
6:02be something that they are not so I
6:05might perceive myself to be Oprah
6:07yet no matter how sincerely I perceive
6:10myself as Oprah no matter how upset I
6:13would be to find out that I am not Oprah
6:15I still am not Oprah I can change my
6:18name to Oprah I can wear a costume to
6:21look like Oprah
6:22well actually I couldn't do that that'd
6:24be blackface and they wouldn't that's
6:25not allowed
6:28that's the one kind of uh of
6:29appropriation that's still not allowed
6:31somehow
6:33but I cannot be Oprah I cannot be
6:35something that fundamentally contradicts
6:37the identity I was born with I am stuck
6:40with my fundamental identity whether I
6:42like it or not in fact
6:44I had a self that is you know what is a
6:47self a self is a it's a person a being
6:50I had a self long before I developed any
6:54perceptions about myself
6:56the self predates my perceptions of it
7:01I was born as an infant with very little
7:04self-awareness and yet I was still a
7:06self I was still a person an identity
7:09the self-perceived self-perception which
7:11means that the self cannot be
7:12fundamentally determined by
7:14self-perception
7:16our job is to bring our self-perception
7:18into line with the reality of ourselves
7:22just like it is our job to bring our
7:24perception of the outside reality in
7:28into line with what that reality
7:29actually is
7:31and if the two are not in line with each
7:34other then the perception should be
7:37changed to fit the physical reality we
7:40cannot change the physical reality to
7:42fit the perception
7:45and so all this means that your sex is
7:47determined without your consent
7:50it is a matter of nature a matter of
7:52physical reality and that physical
7:53reality will either make you male or
7:55female there are no other categories
7:57those are the only ones nobody can
8:00transcend this binary Arrangement nobody
8:02can truly be trans
8:05transgender is a category error it
8:08doesn't actually exist
8:13so there are people who say that they
8:16are trans and I'd self-identify as trans
8:18and use the term trans but they actually
8:20aren't trans transgender people don't
8:23exist as a category that's not possible
8:25to be that
8:28this is what makes gender ideology the
8:30belief that gender is fluid that we can
8:32choose to identify as a man or a woman
8:33that men can have babies and women can
8:35have penises and the rest of it this is
8:37what makes the whole ideology insane and
8:38poisonous and destructive
8:41and that is also why I oppose gender
8:43ideology ideology I oppose it
8:45fundamentally because it is not true
8:48there are a lot of other reasons to
8:49oppose it
8:50and people often talk about
8:51conservatives often talk about uh the
8:53effect that it has on children the
8:55effect that it has on women the effect
8:56it has on women's sports and women's
8:58opportunities and all of those things
9:00are extremely important
9:03but that is not the basic reason why I
9:06oppose it I oppose it first and foremost
9:08because it isn't true
9:10and everything else follows through that
9:13follows from that way why is it so
9:15harmful for children
9:17because it isn't true
9:19if it was actually true that an 11 year
9:21old boy could be a girl whatever that
9:23means
9:24then it would be true and it wouldn't be
9:26harmful but it isn't true
9:28and all of the harm and if it was
9:30actually true that a man who identifies
9:32as a woman actually is a woman it's not
9:34harmful to allow him in the women's
9:36bathroom because that's where he belongs
9:37because he is a woman but he isn't
9:39it isn't true
9:42I oppose all things that are not true
9:45especially those things that eat away at
9:48the most basic and essential realities
9:50of life
9:52now what I'd like to do from here is um
9:56briefly address the five primary
9:58objections to uh everything I've said in
10:01the position that I take and that many
10:03of us probably take on this topic
10:04because these are objections that you've
10:06probably heard
10:07and I think there are still uh plenty of
10:09people that understand the reality of
10:11this and are not proponents of gender
10:13ideology and yet who will get tripped up
10:16by some of these objections when they're
10:18raised
10:19so it'd be useful to go through them
10:22the first objection is uh they say well
10:24you know you talk about sex and gender
10:25like they're the same thing but they're
10:27not sex is biological but gender is a
10:30person's understanding or feeling about
10:33themselves
10:36the answer no
10:38I don't well that's it that's just the
10:40answer okay moving on to number move on
10:42to the next one
10:43no
10:45I mean in all seriousness that is an
10:47appropriate answer to all of this stuff
10:48is just no and
10:51move on now
10:53if I had to elaborate I would say that
10:55you know I don't think that sex and
10:56gender are the same
10:58it is you as the gender ideologue who
11:00has essentially collapsed the very sex
11:02versus gender distinction that you
11:04engineered
11:06and that was engineer originally by the
11:08the people who invented the stuff John
11:10money Alfred Kinsey those guys
11:13so there was a time perhaps when you
11:15would have agreed that there is at least
11:16a biological difference between a woman
11:18who is female and a self-identified
11:20woman who is male if we turn the clock
11:22back 25 years
11:24this same conversation was happening
11:27much more out on the fringes but the
11:29people who were proponents of it would
11:31have most of them admitted that well you
11:34know as a trans woman isn't biologically
11:36a woman there's a difference
11:39they don't admit that anymore
11:41okay they say that trans women are women
11:46they have erased this distinction
11:50um if you did still affirm a
11:52definitional distinction between sex and
11:54gender then you would have to also
11:55affirm that there is in this world a
11:58binary category of male and female and
12:01that those who belong to each category
12:03cannot cross between the two but you
12:06will not affirm any binary at all or any
12:08subset distinction at all between
12:09so-called trans women and women which
12:12means that the whole gender versus sex
12:13thing was nothing but a sleight of hand
12:15trick it was a bait and switch
12:18now as for me I have no use for the term
12:21gender at all in fact we should all stop
12:24using that term that would be the best
12:26thing for us to do
12:27gender doesn't exist as far as people
12:30are concerned gender originally you know
12:33it originates as a as a as a term that
12:35applies to words to language words have
12:39gender people have a sex
12:42and once we established that there are
12:44just men and women males and females we
12:46don't need this concept of gender at all
12:49now the response to that is well uh
12:52yes but there's
12:54men and women have different ways of
12:55expressing themselves different ways of
12:57interacting with the world different
12:58ways of uh of living out their
13:01identities and so on and so forth
13:04well yes they do
13:06we already have a word for that it's
13:08called personality
13:10that is personality
13:12and so so much of what we see if you see
13:14the purple-haired people on Tick Tock
13:16that are talking about their 12
13:17different gender identities and how it
13:19changes by the second
13:21what they're actually trying to describe
13:23is their personality their their rather
13:25fickle personalities
13:28and but the concept of Personality has
13:31been eaten by the concept of gender and
13:33so that's how we end up in a situation
13:35where you've got people who have you
13:36know five different genders and seven
13:38different sexual orientations but no
13:40personality to speak of
13:42because their personalities have been
13:44consumed by all of these other labels

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