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Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Democrats deep state and apostasy

 Vigano posted this on X/twitter, but Lifesite news has a copy of Vigano blasting Cupich for endorsing the Democrats.


(LifeSiteNews) — The scandalous endorsements of Blase Cupich and the heretical ultra-progressive Jesuits in favor of Harris and Walz and the radical Left woke agenda confirm the blood pact between the globalist Deep State and the Bergoglian Deep Church.

What typifies them is the cult of perversion, disease, sterility, poverty, death: abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, genetic manipulation, mutilation and gender transition, health dictatorship, destruction of the social fabric, ethnic replacement, civil war. “Let the dead bury their dead.” (Luke 9:60)


story on Cupich prayer here: noting:



 

Cupich’s address was notable for its silence on certain issues, especially pertaining to Catholic morality. Democrat presidential hopeful Kamala Harris has made no secret about her prominent support for abortion, and abortion giant Planned Parenthood is also offering free abortions and vasectomies at the DNC.

Saturday, August 17, 2024

follow the money: Transgender evangelists

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1:50 course but the economics of it what I call transgender Inc you know is is 1:56 something that uh has gotten very very little attention um and it deserves to 2:01 be highlighted in in very uh visible way because this is a market that in 2:10 2018 um uh this Market is made up of sex reassignment surgeries and hormone 2:16 replacement therapies which include a number of different pharmaceutical products but the combined value sales of 2:24 sex reassignment surgeries and the pharmaceutical products in 2018 was 2:30 $2.94 billion um by 2022 that that figure had Rose to 2:38 4.18 billion and by 2030 um our analysis uh 2:44 indicates that that would increased to $7.5 billion which represents an 8.5% 2:51 compound annual growth rate which is relatively significant um within you 2:56 know a healthc care vertical well it's bigger than the entire Healthcare budgets of some African countries 

I it's 3:02 a lot of money well considering also that the population of patients is about 3:07 a million people there's 1.6 million transgender adults uh or or I should say 3:14 over the age of 13 uh transgender individuals in the United States um as 3:20 of 2022 um now that that number has has doubled in 10 years so in 3:27 2011 there were 7 100,000 transgender um Americans over the age of 13 and by 2022 3:36 that had risen to 1.6 million now

 in so you just ended the debate over whether 3:42 this is something a person is born with well I I I think that there there is absolutely zero scientific evidence that 3:49 would suggest that there is uh a you a gene uh chemical alteration any kind of 3:57 sematic physical biological element to transgenderism that would result in um 4:04 what has become known as gender dysphoria and in fact um you know we if 4:10 we get deeper into the medical research we find that there are no clinical 4:16 studies none on the long-term uh efficacy consequences uh and in many 4:23 cases debilitating life life term um effects of these procedures and pH phal 4:30 products especially on children with there no studies there are none in fact 4:35 the FDA has not approved a single um uh pharmaceutical uh product used in gender 4:43 transition um specifically for gender transition so uh testosterone estrogen 4:50 and what are called GnRH Agonist or puberty bloggers um are all prescribed 4:57 off label um so they do not have specific FDA approval for gender uh gender 5:04 transition because this is such a new field of of medicine um and um you know 5:10 many of these drugs especially these GnRH agonists or puy blockers um are 5:16 have been traditionally prescribed for for cancer patients right prostate 5:22 cancer famously exactly um so there's a drug called Lupron developed by ABV 5:28 Pharmaceuticals and and this has gotten a lot of controversy and a lot of attention because uh in Texas Ken Ken 5:36 Paxton has actually brought suit against ABV and another another pharmaceutical 5:41 company that makes uh puberty blockers called Endo pharmaceuticals uh based on the fact 5:47 that they are advertising uh to Children um these uh 5:53 these drugs off label for a non FDA approved use correct so testosterone 5:59 feeds prostate tumors so if you are diagnosed with prostate cancer one of the therapies might be to lower your 6:05 testosterone correct correct that's where this drug is us that's exactly right but it's now being prescribed at 6:10 scale to kids yeah and there's no study suggesting the outcomes long term none 6:16 no peer review can you think of any is there any other part of air quotes 6:22 medicine where over a million people are being prescribed a course of quote 6:28 therapy where we don't know the outcome um yeah I think there is a there is an 6:34 analogy that can be made um you know as a millennial growing up in the 90s what did what was a what was a big 6:42 Trend at that time in uh you know uh for for that cohort ADHD everyone was put on 6:49 Aderall at a young age because you know School teachers identified hyperactive 6:55 kids and the process of getting going from uh you know being identified as you 7:00 know maybe a little different or whatever at at the school level and then getting elevated to guidance counselors 7:06 then to psychologists then to clinicians and before you know it you're prescribed 7:12 you know a very powerful pharmaceutical drug and I think something very s an addictive drug that will give you brain 7:17 damage for sure and and I'll tell you the drugs that that are taking uh that 7:23 are being administered for for uh transgender patients especially these puberty blockers are far far more dire 7:31 can we just back up one second so and I remember that very well I had kids in school at the time the ADHD thing 7:37 happened and I always thought it was a cope for you know boring teachers teaching pointless material and when 7:43 kids got jumpy they're like you need drugs right but I always assumed there was some sort of longitudinal research on the effects of 7:51 of this and there well at the time you know at that at that time it was still kind of a a novel um you know a novel 8:00 therapy um and really gained you know enormous amount of traction in in the 8:05 '90s and I think what we're seeing but they had no data to show that this would 8:10 improve lach I can't say whether there were whether there were peer-reviewed studies at the time um uh I I believe 8:18 that you know even today we don't know the long-term consequences necessarily of some of of those specific drugs but 8:24 certainly with with respect to the transgender uh Pharmaceuticals there are 8:30 no long-term studies uh peer-reviewed that show the advocacy uh or or not um 8:37 of of of taking these very powerful Pharmaceuticals and um you know we we 8:43 may not know for some time uh and in fact what what has resulted in uh this 8:48 has resulted in a situation where clinicians and institutions and 8:55 academics and elementary schools and the entire gamut of this Supply chain uh has 9:01 have to fall back on protocols established by an organization called 9:06 wpath wpath stands for the world Professional Association of transgender 9:12 Health it's technically a medical uh professional body established in the 9:19 1970s um and um but I think what's unique about it uh is that it's it is it 9:26 is for sure you know a a medical entity uh but it is also an advocacy 9:33 organization and a political advocacy organ for sure so in so far as they are 9:38 advoc advocating for the advancement of transgenderism so in other words uh the 9:46 protocols and clinical protocols that hos Health Systems um you know large and 9:53 small that are fall are falling back on are the standards that W paath um has 9:59 enacted over the years so can I ask you pause for one second so in in order for all of these therapies to become 10:06 mainstream you have to change the definition of gender dysphoria from 10:12 something that you treat a problem psychiatric illness you have to change 10:18 it from that to something very different in in fact the clinical history shows 10:24 just that so in 1952 the first sex reassignment surgery happened 10:30 um I I believe it John's Hopkins with a patient named Christine Jorgenson it was 10:35 very big news at the time um and uh then about 10 years later John's Hopkins 10:41 established the first gender Clinic um for purposes of of uh performing 10:48 sexually assignment surgeries um but for most of the 20th century and certainly 10:54 the postwar period uh transgenderism or gender Foria as it's 10:59 become known um was deemed to be a mental illness it was called 11:05 transsexualism or gender identity disorder um and uh this was kind of the 11:12 basis for understanding treatment and it was deemed to be psychiatric however in 2013 the American 11:21 Psychiatric association amended DSM DSM is the DI Diagnostic and statistical 11:27 Manual of mental illness and in this change um they altered the 11:33 nomenclature of of of the condition such that transexualism or gender identity 11:39 disorder became gender dysphoria and what's significant about this change this is why the term transexual which 11:46 was the term of art that people used all people on all sides of the question has disappeared of course and and well I 11:53 mean let's let's face it if you remove the Pharmaceuticals if you remove the 11:58 surgeries what are you left with you're left with a transvestite right you're 12:04 left with a crossdresser right and that's it and that's what it was for for decades and decades I mean there were 12:11 you knowa like I said some surgeries here and there very small numbers but really this what we're seeing today 12:19 accelerated after 2010 but I think most people if I can didn't feel as 12:24 threatened by that or threatened at all speaking for myself because the stakes are low yeah you put on different 12:30 clothes it's an eccentric hobby of yours or whatever it is but you're not defacing your body you're not 12:39 stopping the natural process of maturation right right so by by by 12:45 defining uh this condition as gender dysphoria what it effectively achieved 12:51 was removing the notion that this is a psychosexual disorder and that is in 12:58 fact a uh conflict between a subjective uh uh uh you know self um 13:07 perception of gender or or even as a social perception of gender and um you 13:13 know one's natural feelings about gender and therefore that can be a that 13:19 distress from from that comes from the uh the the discontinuity between those 13:25 two um uh can be alleviated by surgery iies and these very radical 13:31 Pharmaceuticals so I feel like I was born in the wrong body through plastic surgery and drugs I can eliminate all of 13:40 the anxiety that comes from feeling like I'm trapped in I mean that that is the argument and certainly for for many like 13:47 transgender patients they report um uh positive benefits from from from from 13:54 the process however many many also report regret 13:59 um severe uh physical ailments that come from uh the surgeries themselves which 14:06 we can get into and um the complications that arise from those and and then of course the Pharmaceuticals well let's 14:12 get into that if we could because I spent I don't know the last five years talking about transgender stuff on 14:18 TV and I don't and debating people on it and I don't think I've ever heard anyone describe what exactly the surgeries are 14:24 I don't think you're allowed to ask I haven't Googled for photographs cuz I'm not sure I want to see them but that's like not part of the convers the details 14:31 have kind of been emitted here so what are the surgeries they're purposely emitted so well okay so let's get 14:37 specific and turn this off if it bothers you no no uh for for instance um I think 14:43 probably one of the most graphic uh and um invasive procedures is 14:49 called a vaginoplasty and that is where a uh male male to female patient um is 14:58 castrated testicles are removed uh the the penis is inverted to create a 15:04 vaginal cavity and then uh skin grafting is used to create uh other you know 15:11 other elements of female genitalia vva labia Etc um but what we're what we 15:18 found is that um there was a study from California they can't even do lip filler 15:24 in a convincing way in this country you can't tell me they can recreate something as comp Lex is female 15:29 genitalia I'm sorry of course they can and in there is a study out of California of 869 vaginoplasty patients um and of 15:39 those uh 869 uh 25% uh uh postop uh had uh a side 15:48 effects to the surgery that were so severe that they required additional hospitalization of those 25 25% yes and 15:56 of those 25% 44 have had to have major revisional surgery due to bowel uh 16:03 injuries bleeding um uh also associated with this particular procedure is lo 16:09 total loss of sensation in other words sexual functioning um total loss total loss 16:21 irreversible so um you know that's that's one of the I think the the the 16:26 more you know one of the more explosive of these procedures but you know it also includes mastectomies which are 16:33 performed at increasingly rate on on miners on girls um uh you know even the Biden 16:41 Administration um has kind of tacitly endorsed uh genital uh reconstructive 16:47 surgery for minors on a caseby casee basis this was prated uh by I believe uh 16:54 Admiral LaVine uh Rachel LaVine oh the dude in the milary outfit sure but can I ask so like 17:02 10 years ago again just having spent life in cable news I remember all the debates you sort of Wonder like whatever 17:07 happened to that like the female genital mutilation FGM this was something that your garden 17:12 variety NPR donor was very upset about like 10 years ago yeah I haven't heard 17:19 anybody mention female genital mutilation in the United States in quite some time now is that because we now 17:25 officially engage in it of course we export it the rest of the world the rest of the world the rest of the 17:31 developed World which were in fact uh the Scandinavian countries in particular 17:36 had had you know kind of you know prior in the in the early 2000s and in the 90s 17:42 even we're really at the Forefront of this field of medicine I thought it was the Muslims who had these crazy radical 17:49 ideologies and they were exporting female genital mutilation and now it's the West actually I mean actually in in 17:56 Iran uh Iran is one of the largest centers for sex reassignment surgery in 18:02 the world what yeah because because they're anti-gay and 18:08 transgenderism I mean it's a it's it's a very quietly held but widely held view I 18:14 think amongst um the the LGB community the transgenderism is 18:20 anti-lgb oh of course it is of course it is and and in Iran where homosexuality 18:26 is illegal they have a very simple solution vagino plastic cut it off 18:32 yeah so um well you just blown my mind I had no idea yeah wow um and I I'll tell you uh in 18:40 terms of uh the the the pace of growth for let's say clinics uh serving 18:48 pediatric patients on on gender issues in 15 last 15 years in the United States 18:55 we had zero now to over a 100 clinics clinics for 19:05 kids why it's a very complicated um it's a 19:11 very complicated question and there's a lot of different reasons why um I I would say that the biggest single policy 19:20 Catalyst for this explosion is Obamacare when ObamaCare was uh enacted 19:27 in 2010 there was a kind of very quietly um uh uh kind of written into 19:36 the law a provision in which insurance companies were mandated to to provide 19:42 coverage for what is deemed to be medically necessary gender affirming 19:48 care as a result of that between 2010 and 2016 there was a 50% increase in sex 19:55 reassignment surgeries 25% in increase in um uh ins uh Insurance Co insurance 20:03 coverage for transgender individuals uh and then at the very end of the Obama Administration 20:10 2016 an additional Amendment to the Affordable Care Act was made whereby uh 20:18 uh gender identity could no longer be a basis for denial of 20:23 coverage um uh by private insurance companies as a result of that the next 20:30 year 20 from 2016 to 2017 there was 150% increase in sex reassignment surgeries 20:37 in the United States the Trump Administration in very early on re 20:42 revoked this provision and then of course the Biden Administration put it back in place with I think within the 20:49 first 100 days so they're required to pay for it how expensive is it w are 8:30 no long-term studies uh peer-reviewed that show the advocacy uh or or not um 8:37 of of of taking these very powerful Pharmaceuticals and um you know we we 8:43 may not know for some time uh and in fact what what has resulted in uh this 8:48 has resulted in a situation where clinicians and institutions and 8:55 academics and elementary schools and the entire gamut of this Supply chain uh has 9:01 have to fall back on protocols established by an organization called 9:06 wpath wpath stands for the world Professional Association of transgender 9:12 Health it's technically a medical uh professional body established in the 9:19 1970s um and um but I think what's unique about it uh is that it's it is it 9:26 is for sure you know a a medical entity uh but it is also an advocacy 9:33 organization and a political advocacy organ for sure so in so far as they are 9:38 advoc advocating for the advancement of transgenderism so in other words uh the 9:46 protocols and clinical protocols that hos Health Systems um you know large and 9:53 small that are fall are falling back on are the standards that W paath um has 9:59 enacted over the years so can I ask you pause for one second so in in order for all of these therapies to become 10:06 mainstream you have to change the definition of gender dysphoria from 10:12 something that you treat a problem psychiatric illness you have to change 10:18 it from that to something very different in in fact the clinical history shows 10:24 just that so in 1952 the first sex reassignment surgery happened 10:30 um I I believe it John's Hopkins with a patient named Christine Jorgenson it was 10:35 very big news at the time um and uh then about 10 years later John's Hopkins 10:41 established the first gender Clinic um for purposes of of uh performing 10:48 sexually assignment surgeries um but for most of the 20th century and certainly 10:54 the postwar period uh transgenderism or gender Foria as it's 10:59 become known um was deemed to be a mental illness it was called 11:05 transsexualism or gender identity disorder um and uh this was kind of the 11:12 basis for understanding treatment and it was deemed to be psychiatric however in 2013 the American 11:21 Psychiatric association amended DSM DSM is the DI Diagnostic and statistical 11:27 Manual of mental illness and in this change um they altered the 11:33 nomenclature of of of the condition such that transexualism or gender identity 11:39 disorder became gender dysphoria and what's significant about this change this is why the term transexual which 11:46 was the term of art that people used all people on all sides of the question has disappeared of course and and well I 11:53 mean let's let's face it if you remove the Pharmaceuticals if you remove the 11:58 surgeries what are you left with you're left with a transvestite right you're 12:04 left with a crossdresser right and that's it and that's what it was for for decades and decades I mean there were 12:11 you knowa like I said some surgeries here and there very small numbers but really this what we're seeing today 12:19 accelerated after 2010 but I think most people if I can didn't feel as 12:24 threatened by that or threatened at all speaking for myself because the stakes are low yeah you put on different 12:30 clothes it's an eccentric hobby of yours or whatever it is but you're not defacing your body you're not 12:39 stopping the natural process of maturation right right so by by by 12:45 defining uh this condition as gender dysphoria what it effectively achieved 12:51 was removing the notion that this is a psychosexual disorder and that is in 12:58 fact a uh conflict between a subjective uh uh uh you know self um 13:07 perception of gender or or even as a social perception of gender and um you 13:13 know one's natural feelings about gender and therefore that can be a that 13:19 distress from from that comes from the uh the the discontinuity between those 13:25 two um uh can be alleviated by surgery iies and these very radical 13:31 Pharmaceuticals so I feel like I was born in the wrong body through plastic surgery and drugs I can eliminate all of 13:40 the anxiety that comes from feeling like I'm trapped in I mean that that is the argument and certainly for for many like 13:47 transgender patients they report um uh positive benefits from from from from 13:54 the process however many many also report regret 13:59 um severe uh physical ailments that come from uh the surgeries themselves which 14:06 we can get into and um the complications that arise from those and and then of course the Pharmaceuticals well let's 14:12 get into that if we could because I spent I don't know the last five years talking about transgender stuff on 14:18 TV and I don't and debating people on it and I don't think I've ever heard anyone describe what exactly the surgeries are 14:24 I don't think you're allowed to ask I haven't Googled for photographs cuz I'm not sure I want to see them but that's like not part of the convers the details 14:31 have kind of been emitted here so what are the surgeries they're purposely emitted so well okay so let's get 14:37 specific and turn this off if it bothers you no no uh for for instance um I think 14:43 probably one of the most graphic uh and um invasive procedures is 14:49 called a vaginoplasty and that is where a uh male male to female patient um is 14:58 castrated testicles are removed uh the the penis is inverted to create a 15:04 vaginal cavity and then uh skin grafting is used to create uh other you know 15:11 other elements of female genitalia vva labia Etc um but what we're what we 15:18 found is that um there was a study from California they can't even do lip filler 15:24 in a convincing way in this country you can't tell me they can recreate something as comp Lex is female 15:29 genitalia I'm sorry of course they can and in there is a study out of California of 869 vaginoplasty patients um and of 15:39 those uh 869 uh 25% uh uh postop uh had uh a side 15:48 effects to the surgery that were so severe that they required additional hospitalization of those 25 25% yes and 15:56 of those 25% 44 have had to have major revisional surgery due to bowel uh 16:03 injuries bleeding um uh also associated with this particular procedure is lo 16:09 total loss of sensation in other words sexual functioning um total loss total loss 16:21 irreversible so um you know that's that's one of the I think the the the 16:26 more you know one of the more explosive of these procedures but you know it also includes mastectomies which are 16:33 performed at increasingly rate on on miners on girls um uh you know even the Biden 16:41 Administration um has kind of tacitly endorsed uh genital uh reconstructive 16:47 surgery for minors on a caseby casee basis this was prated uh by I believe uh 16:54 Admiral LaVine uh Rachel LaVine oh the dude in the milary outfit sure but can I ask so like 17:02 10 years ago again just having spent life in cable news I remember all the debates you sort of Wonder like whatever 17:07 happened to that like the female genital mutilation FGM this was something that your garden 17:12 variety NPR donor was very upset about like 10 years ago yeah I haven't heard 17:19 anybody mention female genital mutilation in the United States in quite some time now is that because we now 17:25 officially engage in it of course we export it the rest of the world the rest of the world the rest of the 17:31 developed World which were in fact uh the Scandinavian countries in particular 17:36 had had you know kind of you know prior in the in the early 2000s and in the 90s 17:42 even we're really at the Forefront of this field of medicine I thought it was the Muslims who had these crazy radical 17:49 ideologies and they were exporting female genital mutilation and now it's the West actually I mean actually in in 17:56 Iran uh Iran is one of the largest centers for sex reassignment surgery in 18:02 the world what yeah because because they're anti-gay and 18:08 transgenderism I mean it's a it's it's a very quietly held but widely held view I 18:14 think amongst um the the LGB community the transgenderism is 18:20 anti-lgb oh of course it is of course it is and and in Iran where homosexuality 18:26 is illegal they have a very simple solution vagino plastic cut it off 18:32 yeah so um well you just blown my mind I had no idea yeah wow um and I I'll tell you uh in 18:40 terms of uh the the the pace of growth for let's say clinics uh serving 18:48 pediatric patients on on gender issues in 15 last 15 years in the United States 18:55 we had zero now to over a 100 clinics clinics for 19:05 kids why it's a very complicated um it's a 19:11 very complicated question and there's a lot of different reasons why um I I would say that the biggest single policy 19:20 Catalyst for this explosion is Obamacare when ObamaCare was uh enacted 19:27 in 2010 there was a kind of very quietly um uh uh kind of written into 19:36 the law a provision in which insurance companies were mandated to to provide 19:42 coverage for what is deemed to be medically necessary gender affirming 19:48 care as a result of that between 2010 and 2016 there was a 50% increase in sex 19:55 reassignment surgeries 25% in increase in um uh ins uh Insurance Co insurance 20:03 coverage for transgender individuals uh and then at the very end of the Obama Administration 20:10 2016 an additional Amendment to the Affordable Care Act was made whereby uh 20:18 uh gender identity could no longer be a basis for denial of 20:23 coverage um uh by private insurance companies as a result of that the next 20:30 year 20 from 2016 to 2017 there was 150% increase in sex reassignment surgeries 20:37 in the United States the Trump Administration in very early on re 20:42 revoked this provision and then of course the Biden Administration put it back in place with I think within the 20:49 first 100 days so they're required to pay for it how expensive is it well um a total 20:57 transformation or a transition rather for male to female is approximately 21:05 $142,000 what does that entail that would entail what's called bottom surgery and Top surgery so that would be 21:14 castration fake non-functional vagina and breast implants exactly but that 21:20 does not um I mean this is too it's almost too crazy it's it's perverse can I just ask 21:28 a question that does anyone study the sex lives of posttop transexuals like 21:33 how are they uh well as I said um for many many patients that have uh 21:39 especially the the male to females that have uh uh procedures General 21:45 reconstruction procedures they you know face a lifetime of zero sexual function 21:52 because they they lose sensitivity um you know in this 21:57 artificial vag ch um what about constructing artificial penis are they better at that that seems to be more um 22:05 efficacious um because it involves less complicated well it's less complicated um it's it's also uh you know part of 22:13 the process of of let's say administering testosterone to to women 22:18 results in an enlargement of the clitoris yes and that can be used um as 22:24 a basis to create a nealis so that's one procedure procedure that costs about 50,000 that can 22:30 actually cost up to $150,000 depending on you know the the 22:36 health system but it's generally about 50 so in that specific case if I mean since we know that testosterone and 22:42 estrogen too I mean these are really powerful chemicals and they're implicated in all kinds of Health 22:48 they're necessary but they're implicated in health disorders like cancer and but but others as well if you 22:54 pump a man full of estrogen or a woman full of testosterone like what are the health consequences of that leaving 23:00 aside I me sex again we have no long-term studies on the effects 23:07 long-term effects of these Pharmaceuticals uh on transgender patients there there's there's simply 23:13 not so clinicians fall back on guidelines established by uh wpath um by 23:20 a transgender political group yes yes um 23:25 this is a very interesting anecdote about wpath there was a uh clinical psychologist at 23:33 UCSF uh who is the uh us chapter president of wath and she she is 23:40 transgender and in 2000 I believe 2021 she made a public statement 23:47 that uh she believed that the industry was moving way too fast and there was 23:56 sloppy medicine and uh uh propensity for false positives in adolescence resulting 24:03 in potentially irreversible changes for for these kids as a result of this 24:09 statement W paath forced her to resign and then issued a moratorium on all of 24:15 its board members from ever speaking to the press That's crazy yeah that's not 24:21 science no but you have to wonder about just your garden variety physician who 24:28 is swimming in the soup funded by the insurance companies led by the nose by 24:34 activist groups like w path and Human Rights Campaign Etc and the effect is like scary medicine that's destroying 24:41 people's lives like where are all the doctors standing up and saying whoa that's not science this is bad for people I don't ever see them where are 24:47 they in this country they're hard to find in other countries which actually has longer 24:54 histories of of this kind of uh treatments and product lines um um there 25:00 there's there's a significant push back in fact in in England um the leading uh 25:06 pediatric clinic for gender dysphoria it's called the Talis talisto Clinic um 25:13 was shut down by the NIH which is the uh the uh UK Health System uh Health 25:21 administrator um because of of again sloppy 25:26 diagnoses um uh uh concerns that doctors were neglecting their duty of care uh 25:34 informed consent and so it's opening up potential Tor litigation um but it does 25:40 seem like I mean we have tens of thousands of physicians in this country and they're all well educated and by definition smart and you'd like to think 25:47 they're responsible and ethical but it seems like they've been so corrupted 25:52 like how could they stand by and allow this to happen well how can they go on Tik Tok and and Instagram and vertise uh 25:59 specifically to targeted transgender youth that are following these feeds and 26:05 promoting their services um you know is that is that medicine or is that retail medicine so I 26:12 want to ask you about the economics in a minute but I'm just I'm struck by the moral Corruption of course and 26:17 wondering I mean there are a lot of crappy talk show hosts out there and I always feel like well I'm a talk show host I should probably say something you 26:23 know what I mean like because it's embarrassing um but I don't hold anyone's life in my hands if I was a 26:29 doctor it would feels like there's a moral obligation to say something so um this is a gender affirming surgeon this 26:37 is a lunatic with a knife called seeve Gallagher uh describing a brand new 26:44 group of of patients watch this a group of gender diverse individuals who 26:50 haven't been very visible are Unix and there's an entire chapter devoted to 26:57 these folks in the most recent version of The W Pat standards of care W Pat's World Professional Association of 27:03 transgender health and so basically a unic is somebody who's a signed male at 27:08 Birth but may not be comfortable with the masculine features and may also benefit from gender affirmation care 27:15 which could mean orchiectomy in some patients now we have to be very careful 27:21 because we know that if we just take away sex hormones completely patients can have problems with osteoporosis and 27:28 cardiovascular disease so usually the patient will supplement on either lowd dose testosterone or lowd dose estrogen 27:34 and it requires Specialized Care but sometimes this is an important part of 27:39 gender affirmation surgery for this uh group of patients so just in case you're 27:45 wondering if this is Medieval here you have apparently a physician proudly creating Unix 27:52 presumably to guard the Herm somewhere exactly I mean what so but like where 27:57 all the other surgeons who like wait that's fully crackpot that's pre- 28:03 science uh there is definitely a push back but institutions are crushing that 28:10 descent that's what it is just like what I cited with with the CL uh clinical psychologist at uh you know who's the 28:17 the W path no that's that's what it is US chair it's the in it's like everyone watch the 2020 election get stolen but 28:23 nobody can say anything because you'll get crushed look and it's not just Healthcare instit it's not just Health 28:30 Systems it's not just pharmaceutical companies it's Corporate America so for 28:35 instance um there is a uh an entity called the Tani Foundation the Tani 28:41 Foundation is led by Jennifer pritsker who is the transgender sister of 28:47 governor of Illinois JB pritsker and she established a uh a nonprofit entity 28:54 called tuani foundation and then a private Equity vehicle called tuani enter Rises 20 Foundation has in uh has 29:03 established grants all over the world to um propagate 29:08 transgenderism at the Ed at the University levels um funding uh legal 29:14 you know uh uh uh you know legal battles um and legislative initiatives um but 29:21 they you know in uh have also um partnered with corporate entities so for 29:27 instance in 20 13 towani in conjunction with Wells Fargo Foundation established 29:34 a grant at UC Santa Barbara to study transgenderism in the US 29:43 military to study transgenderism in the US military promote 29:48 promote so can you tell me what you think the motive is in Corporate America 29:54 getting behind something so obviously destructive well I think I think that um 30:00 you know as as you have opined many many times um Corporate America gets their 30:07 marching orders from uh HR departments HR departments get their marching orders 30:14 from universities universities are um we we 30:20 know what the the culture and uh mores are of you know our of our Elite 30:26 institutions and even these medical associations and Boards um wath included have strong 30:34 affiliations with universities um these ideas are coming out of 30:39 universities and why that is there's many of many of reasons why I would argue it's it's a kind of extension of 30:47 postmodernist cultural Marxism because transgenderism you know if we're looking 30:52 at it philosophically um is ultimately about rejecting what is a foundational 31:00 principle um philosophical principle in western civilization which goes back to 31:05 Aristotle that there is such a thing as objective truth and reality yes but transgenderism Beauty yes but 31:12 transgenderism is to say there is no such thing as an objective reality that 31:18 you are born a male or female it is your subjective perception of your gender 31:24 identity that is actualized and made real and where it becomes kind of 31:30 authoritarian as a movement in the fact that the movement demands Society 31:36 recognize that subjective reality as truth and I feel that that is one of the 31:44 most disturbing things about this entire movement they've created entire lexicon that is um uh you know for instance 31:53 gender affirming care what does that mean what does what does it mean um to 31:58 be assigned a sex at Birth as as it's often uh referred to in the 32:04 literature I mean I you know one argument could be made it's very 32:10 anti-god right it's it is you are assigned a a gender and that can be 32:15 changed by by Medical Science because you're God because right it also looks a lot like human sacrifice to me I mean 32:23 castrate your sons yeah and you'll somehow benefit I mean most people I 32:30 would say throughout you know as long as people have existed kind of want their children to reproduce and sort of carry 32:35 on the line that's like the core human desire and this ends it I mean you 32:41 castrate your son you have no grandchildren yeah but but what why why are parents agreeing to this they're 32:46 doing so because and there are many many anecdotes uh related to this in in 32:54 across the literature and across a lot of investigative Journal journalist reports on this subject is that parents 33:01 are presented you know especially at that initial meeting uh with a you know 33:06 at a gender Clinic with with a um you know a a choice they'll say you can 33:13 either you're your son can either be a daughter or you can have a dead son right and they will scare the hell out 33:19 of them with statistics about suicide rates and all sorts of other mental illnesses that will you know 33:28 suggestively um uh come to fruition if you do not take this course of action 33:34 ironically in Sweden which was really at the one a leader you know in this in 33:40 this in this area of medicine and in this field um a Swedish study uh about 33:46 couple years ago found that uh postop transgender patients have a 33:52 significantly higher likelihood of making suicide suicide attempts 33:58 and uh requiring uh inpatient psychiatric care than the overall G 34:03 general population is is this is it only the white countries that are doing this or the non-white countries that are 34:09 super anxious to castrate their kids well I can tell you it's not happening in China right it's not happening in 34:14 Japan it's not happening in India uh in Thailand um they have long had a um 34:23 cultural concept of like a third sex and so there's a lot of in fact it's a big market for sex change surgeries and for 34:31 sex trafficking yeah sex trafficking too so um but what about subsaharan 34:37 Africa I mean they certainly have uh you know I think a a strong market share on 34:43 the genital mutilation uh sub segment but uh in terms of uh uh transgenderism 34:51 I I I think that's a that's a nonstarter this is an American export at this point 34:56 yeah but it's the it's the osphere too in Scandinavia and it's Western Europe the United States but in England they're 35:02 P pulling back from this as well they're they they're there are there are a number of Tor important tort cases 35:10 centered around um uh neglect uh uh negligence by doctors when it comes to 35:16 duty of care and um informed consent uh for transgender years so what just back 35:23 to the money um which I've given short shrift to my apologies so 35:28 who's profiting you know you bring your eighth grader into a gender Clinic kid's got a 35:34 transition or else he's going to kill himself who makes money going forward well um Cedar Sinai Hospital health 35:41 system in Los Angeles is the market leader in the sex reassignment surgery us sex reassignment surgery Market they 35:48 have a eight eight approximately 8% market share it's highly fragmented 35:53 overall no you know no no no uh single entity really has a share greater than 35:59 8% so you know these these are very often Regional uh and highly competitive 36:05 um uh space but but Regional and Cedars 36:11 uh has a dedicated uh transgender Clinic um the S the S the revenue from from the 36:18 surgeries uh uh brought on by that that clinic uh in 36:23 2022 amounted to over $200 million that is on revenue of uh I believe 88 billion 36:32 uh for Cedars overall Cedars doesn't have a board or there no I mean there's no oversight of 36:39 this the the board encourages it um in fact uh there there there there are very 36:46 perverse incentives for Health Systems um to go full on board uh with um this 36:53 you know this line of service and this line of products uh because because entities like the Human Rights Campaign 37:01 have established um what is essentially ESG for Trans they call it HEI Health 37:09 Equity inclusion so Human Rights Campaign about 15 years ago established this uh National benchmarking tool and 37:17 it effectively is a equity and inclusion um uh gauge for health 37:24 systems and it is used coercively um and examples of that uh would be that 37:31 in uh 2020 the Children's National Hospital um received a low HEI score and 37:39 as a result of that the board of directors of the hospital uh 37:44 immediately uh established a Dei subcommittee and then extended sex 37:50 reassignment surgery coverage to all of their employees and their dependents under the age of 18 the next year H uh 37:59 Children's National Hospital received 100% H but it's a hospital filled with self-described Scientists nobody's piped 38:05 up and said there's zero evidence this is a good idea we don't have a single study suggesting this works no one said 38:11 that well I I mean there there's there are certainly um studies that would show 38:17 that uh and and again like these are not necessarily peer-reviewed but there's 38:22 studies that show that transgender patients um are sometimes very satisfied with results but on the other hand many 38:31 times they're not over what period um well I mean that's a great question too 38:36 because I mean if you take a 17-year-old and pump him full of hormones he wasn't born with 38:42 like you know there have to be massive physical and psych psychological consequences well okay so with puberty 38:49 blockers in particular uh which suppress testosterone um in Men in particular for 38:57 Pro cancer as you as you cited and and affect the pituitary gland um uh and 39:03 suppress the onset of puberty this was this was also developed to address what's called precocious puberty um that 39:11 would be uh you know kids early on 6 n years old who start developing early and 39:18 this is what it's administered for but the the long-term effects of of these drugs um especially in in healthy 39:26 basically healthy patients and let's face transgender patients do not necessarily have any other comorbidities 39:33 or medical problems they they're healthy adults it's it's in the mind um you know 39:39 that results in uh the initiation of treatment um and uh in in the case of 39:46 puberty blockers you you have uh concern even amongst uh gender uh 39:53 clinicians that uh brain development may be significantly impacted um by the 39:59 administration of these drugs because if you suppress uh you know natural 40:05 maturation that includes brain development at a very critical stage in 40:11 adolescence so so we have you know that's a side effect there's concerns 40:17 about bone density there's concern certainly concerns about long-term fertility rates um it goes on and on and 40:25 on you said there are two big manufacturers of puberty 40:32 blockers well there's there's several the the the leading pharmaceutical players in this space include 40:39 fizer uh a company called ABY Pharmaceuticals fizer what is fiser make fiser makes testosterone estrogen and 40:46 puberty blockers primarily though uh it's testosterone and estrogen and I I 40:51 want to stipulate that um the overall sales for um these product lines um at 40:59 the within the pharmaceutical companies are are are relatively small because the number of patients is very small there's 41:06 um SE uh 300,000 transgender youth so 13 to 17 in the United States that number 41:13 has by the way doubled over five years from 2017 being 150,000 to uh 41:21 300,000 um by 2022 um and uh so 41:28 um you know so so these pharmaceutical companies are not necessarily making huge amounts of money off of these drugs 41:36 uh I think really the big the big money is coming from from Health Systems and 41:41 the surgeries because they're just so expensive um um and incorporate you know 41:47 obviously a lot of ancillary costs related to surgeries in general um as I 41:52 said you know revision surgeries are are uh uh you know a uh frequent issue um 41:59 with with transgender sex reassignment um because they're just so invasive and so complicated it takes 12 to 18 months 42:06 to recover from a vaginoplasty or a phalloplasty um and the lifetime uh 42:14 consequences for patients you know can be can be severe and drastic is there 42:19 any publicly traded company you're aware of the United States that has said I'm not we're not getting involved in this 42:24 at all is anyone pushing has uh stayed away from um puberty 42:31 blockers and really focused on the testosterone and estrogen markets um 42:36 Endo pharmaceuticals and ABV uh Pharmaceuticals are really the the tip 42:42 of the spear on on the these GnRH Agonist puberty blockers and are those 42:48 publicly traded those are publicly traded yes have shareholders push back at all not that I'm aware of um although 42:56 there have been suits um filed uh in Texas I think most recently by Ken 43:01 Paxton um against both those companies for advertising uh off label to 43:09 kids why did you do this study because we wanted to understand uh the the the 43:17 economic uh foundations and structure and incentives behind the this industry 43:23 so much has talked about the cultural element but very little is understood 43:29 about are what what if any are you know are 43:34 motivating uh institutions um to uh you know so 43:40 rapidly Embrace um what is a radical and untested area of 43:46 medicine how long until this wave crests would you project it's a good question I 43:53 mean this for all we know this could be a a p fad or or not um you know uh well 44:03 sterilize your children yeah it doesn't seem like a long-term growth plan to me but the growth rate in in uh kids 44:11 identifying as transgender is growing exponentially so as I said from 44:18 2017 we have 300 thou 150,000 uh you know Americans 13 to 17 44:26 who are are uh transgender or gender Doric within 5 years that number has 44:32 grown to 300,000 and I think that you know we as 44:38 part of that analysis and as part of the understanding of the Catalyst behind that growth we have to look at you know 44:46 the issue of social contagion and in fact wath in one of their most updated 44:53 standards of care noted that social influence may play a role in adolescent 45:00 gender identity so they're even coming to you know the conclusion that this may 45:08 be a societal construct uh phenomenon um 45:13 rather than some you know uh emerging 45:18 kind of medical disorder since the foundation of human biology is sex differences like that's the that's the 45:24 foundational difference right and sex differences are detectable at the DNA level you can dig up bones and say 45:31 whether they're male or female this whole project requires every quote scientist to play along with something 45:38 he knows is a lie right of course yeah but it's not just it's not just scientists and doctors it's it's the 45:44 entire it's our entire Civic discourse uh we are told you know from 45:51 from above from institutions universities Democratic party the Biden Administration so so on and so forth you 45:58 know large corporations that uh transgender uh woman is a woman and it 46:05 will not be questioned right that's why that is why this this is I think gaining 46:11 so much attention because it's not so much and and and my just personal belief is you know if an adult wants to pursue 46:19 this uh line of treatment you know this line of uh of surgeries you know at at 46:26 at at a age where where they have the maturity to make that decision they should probably be allowed to do so um 46:33 and if it makes them happier great but you know when it comes to kids who don't 46:39 have the uh you know maturation um to make that kind of decision in fact they're on puty 46:45 blockers and their brains aren't even maybe developing to the same extent to that would you know impact their 46:51 decision making on this um uh I think it it's a it's an entirely different but 46:56 that kind of was the status quo for a long long time I mean this is not a new thing as you said 1952 was the first 47:03 yeah over 70 years ago so what two things changed one going after children 47:09 and two implicating the entire Society in the lie that sex is not permanent 47:15 right that why even go there like they were people who felt like they needed to have cosmetic surgery and have their 47:21 generals reconstructed no one really said much about it why get everybody involved in it 47:28 it's a it's a great question I mean why why is the Democratic party Embrace transgenderism as as a you know a hill 47:34 to to to die on I mean it seems seemingly um certainly in the Biden 47:40 Administration uh to be um something that is constantly propagated and and exported 47:47 you know through the state department even the state department has now allowed passports uh US passports to to 47:54 have an x mark so you know you would have you know you're male female now 48:03 X maybe an exhausted Society deciding to kill itself I I I I think actually um 48:10 you know you look back at periods of history when a society is in the 48:16 Twilight of Imperial Decline and during those times um 48:24 perversion runs wild yeah the viare rep public fetishism was you know the the 48:31 kind of you know popular uh uh Hobby and 48:36 at the you know other periods of of Imperial decline Rome of course um 48:42 there's also e evidence of kind of uh you know wild perversions and um uh 48:50 breaks from traditional mores that signal something deeper going on in 48:56 society and that this feels like that to you I think so yeah yeah I think 49:03 absolutely um I don't know how else you can explain it really um especially when it comes to 49:10 kids so last question if you wanted to knowing as much as you do about how this 49:16 began and who's profiting if you wanted to stop it or slow it down or make it less likely that your eighth grader 49:22 wants to transition what what would you do well I think I think that um I think 49:30 when you're talking about an eighth grader for instance who exhibits let's say you know strong feminine qualities 49:38 an early age may very well just just be just be gay but um in the day in the 49:45 kind of the time that we live in now uh that eth grader is scrutinized by you 49:51 know a ele eth grade teacher identified as potential gender 49:57 dysphoric referred to a guidance counselor who then refers to a local psychologist who then refers uh the the 50:04 the the the the eighth grader and its parents who a gender Clinic go to the gender Clinic um and a um a clinici will 50:13 will make a very Stark um assessment uh and raise the stakes for these parents 50:19 saying you know you can have again as I said a a a dead a dead son or or a 50:25 transitioned daughter and there was a a study that Reuters did 50:31 last year of uh 18 uh pediatric clinics 50:37 gender clinics in the US uh and to assess basically the process of 50:42 evaluation um they came to the following um conclusion effectively patients will 50:50 uh meet with a social worker a psychologist and a clinician either a pediatrician or an end no chronologist 50:58 they'll take a you know 2-hour meeting assess medical history uh talk about the 51:04 benefits and risks and so on and so forth present these suicide statistics and Reuters found that seven 51:11 of these 18 clinics um would after you know um you 51:17 know after they were made sure there was no obvious red flags or comorbidities 51:22 and that the P that the child and parents were in agreement which I think is interesting the child would be in 51:29 agreement to this um equally with the parents then um uh most then of these 51:36 seven uh uh clinics uh they are comfortable after this two-hour meeting 51:42 after a first meeting to make a gender uh dysphoria diagnosis and uh prescribe 51:48 these powerful far Pharmaceuticals any idea what percentage of the families were single parent 51:54 female headed I don't know that it's a good question it's hard to imagine too many dads going along with this but may 52:01 maybe that but in California recently there was uh legislation um that uh uh 52:08 can effectively uh take custody away from from let's say a dad who objects to 52:15 the gender affirmation of their kid yeah well that's just stealing your 52:21 child and to what end for it's just interesting I mean you know it's a passive country that nobody's resorted 52:27 to violence I mean in a normal culture of someone said we're going to take your child away and castrate him I mean that you know you would die before you let 52:33 that happen yeah I mean again I think that so much of this has to be viewed in 52:40 parallel with the radicalization that happens at the at the primary school 52:45 level and University School level um frankly Elon Musk has talked about this 52:51 his own experience with this um at a elite private school in Los Angeles 52:56 where um you he uh his daughter uh son rather um became kind of politically 53:04 radicalized and then trans transitioned and and you'll find I think that um the 53:11 the you know the the political radicalization and the gender 53:17 radicalization are both coming from the universities and they both have the same end goals which is to uh break down the 53:26 the foundations of of our country and of our civilization as as we have you know 53:33 uh have have established for for Millennia um to replace it with 53:39 something new in their in their image um and it is a kind of playing God um and 53:46 it's a kind of cultural revolution um that I think uh you know even has some 53:53 some um you know parallels to the CH China's uh cultural revolution yeah 54:00 which seems a little bit less absurd than this just saying oh in in many ways 54:05 yeah Chris thank you for all of this all the research you did and for so clearly

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