Matt Walsh (34:00)
Now, obviously, everything you're saying about kids is totally correct. This is the point we've been making for many years now. And we're gonna start hearing a lot more stories like the one he talks about there, hopefully. Because those are the stories with the happy endings, the ones where the parents pull back from the trans path before it's too late, before they start the drugs and surgeries and then they discover that, what do you know, their gender confused daughter is actually not even confused at all. She's just really a tomboy who likes to play sports and whatever else. And that's fine. This has always been our point, and this has always also been the irony, or at least something that might Be mistaken for irony, which is that those of us on the quote unquote conservative side of this issue actually have a much more, to use the left phrase here, expansive. We have a much more, if you would like to say gender expansive view than the other side. Because we are the ones who will say that being a girl or being a boy doesn't put you in a tiny box where there's only one set of behaviors, one set of interests, one set of hobbies, one mode of being that is accepted. You know, we're the ones saying there's a lot of different ways to be a girl. There's a lot of different ways to be a boy. Some girls like girly stuff. Many girls do, probably most. But some girls aren't into the dolls and the pink and all that, and they prefer to go out and play baseball and whatever. And that's all fine. Some girls are kind of a mix of the two. My 11 year old daughter is into ballet. She loves to bake. Very girly in most ways. But every time I go outside to play football with my boys, she comes running out and wants to play too. And actually she's got pretty good hands. She makes some impressive catches, I have to say. And all that is fine, you know, she's a girl who likes ballet and she also likes to play football with us. Great. The point is that my wife and I don't look at that and then break out the decoder ring to try and figure out if that makes her a girl or a boy or maybe non binary. No, there's nothing to even. It's not confusing. There's no equation here, there's no calculus. She's a girl, but she's a girl who has interests and has a certain personality. And that's fine. That's more than fine. I think it's great. It's who she is is what makes her unique and interesting. And this is also, by the way, yet more evidence that. Which is something that every parent knows or every parent should know, that kids will tend to develop interests and a sense of identity based, at least in part, in large part, on how the parents lead them. So the real reason that my daughter wants to come out and play football with us is that I'm playing and I love football and she wants to be a part of that because I'm her dad and that's obvious. But what does that say about kids who develop an interest in being trans? Well, often that's the child trying to participate in something that the parent is interested in, which is all the gender nonsense. So it's a reflection of the parent. But in any case, back to the point, this is the happy ending that we'll start seeing, I think, for a lot of kids. And their parents will pull back from the gender craziness just in time, before any physical harm has been done. And the children will be allowed to just be boys and girls who have different interests and different personalities, and that's it. Now, of course, the tragedy is that it won't always be a happy ending. There will also be many sad endings, tragic endings where the parents pull back after the threshold has been crossed, after they've charged past the Rubicon. And now their children will have to deal with the lasting effects, the permanent effects, forever. That's the really sad and infuriating part. And it's also why simply rolling back gender ideology is not enough. I mean, that's the start. That's the start is to roll it back. Ban these Frankenstein procedures, ban this abuse of kids. All of that needs to happen first. But then there have to be punishments. Justice has to be done to those who push this and cause this harm to children, because this is not a victimless crime, clearly. And even after, that's the thing, we will, I think, sooner than later, live in a country where a lot of this stuff as a culture is behind us, especially as it pertains to kids. I think we will, sooner than later, live in a country where this stuff is just not happening to kids anymore. Because it's a losing argument. It's losing badly. It's not sustainable, as I've been saying now for months. But now the sad truth is that we might reach a point as a culture where we can say, okay, well, that's behind us now. And it'll become a bizarre, dark period in the history books that years from now, people will read about, and they'll be totally baffled by it. They won't understand. And those of us who lived through it still don't quite understand how this happened. I mean, we could only have theories about how society lost its mind to this extent that it started doing this to kids. But even when we reach a point, I think in the not too distant future where this stuff is behind us as a culture, there are a lot of people who, for them, it's never really going to be behind them. They're going to have to live with it forever. They're not going to have the option of just closing that chapter in the book and saying, well, that's over, because things have been done to them that they're going to have to live with physically, emotionally, spiritually, forever. And that's also why we can't just move on. There have to be punishments. People have to be punished for this. One more thought about this. I just. I was thinking about recently going back to this example of my daughter and how she'll participate in some of the more masculine things that I do and that her brothers do. I've often wondered if this is one of the reasons why gender dysphoria, so called, is more common in girls than boys. And there are, as you know, it has much more often been girls who have fallen into this, especially in adolescence. And there are a lot of theories to explain that dynamic. I've offered different theories through the years, and I think that all the theories are true to some extent. But it's not a one size fits all kind of answer. And there's. There are many different answers, I think. And there's an element of the issue that I've never heard anyone discuss before, or if they have, I haven't heard it. And that is that in my experience, and this is entirely anecdotal, I'll admit, but in my experience, girls are much more likely to want to participate in stereotypically masculine things like football, like whatever else, and to adopt some stereotypically masculine interests than boys are to do the opposite, to adopt feminine interests and to want to participate in stereotypically feminine things. And it's much more common for girls for it to go that way with girls, but not necessarily in the reverse for boys. And that's not because all these girls are tomboys. My daughter is not, as I said, she's a very girly girl in almost every imaginable way. But she likes to go out and play football and that sort of thing. She'll go out in the woods with us and shoot pellet guns, like she likes to do that kind of stuff. And this seems to be common for girls. Almost any dad of girls that I've talked to will say something similar. And boys, again, in my experience, aren't usually like that. In the reverse. My sons like all the typically boyish stuff. They don't mix in any girly stuff at all. They're not interested at all in any of that. They're not gonna go play with dolls occasionally or express any interest in ballet or what have you. So it's pretty rare. It's pretty rare to find a boy who, say, loves baseball and monster trucks and all that, but then also is kind of interested in figure skating. That doesn't happen very often. Girls seem much more likely to mix in some of the masculine interests than boys are to mix in some of the feminine interests. And I think the reason for that is that girls are more social, the more communal by nature. So they're much more likely to become interested in the things that the people around them and close to them are interested in for the sake of socializing and bonding with those people. Like the fact that someone close to them loves something makes them love it too. And not just as a put on, not as a show, but they actually are interested in it. I remember once, for instance, being over at my in laws and they're big hockey fans and they were watching hockey and my wife was watching it too and getting really, really into it, like really into it. Really emotionally invested in this hockey match or hockey game, hockey match. And we never watched hockey at home. We're not hockey fans at all. Never watched it one time, no interest. But for a couple of hours on that particular day, my wife was truly invested in it, truly interested, because her family was. And it was a communal experience. Now, on the other hand, I'm not interested in hockey. So I just went off and did my own thing because I don't care. I'm not going to suddenly care about it because other people do. I think that's how men usually are. We like what we like, we're interested in what we're interested in. It doesn't matter who else shares that interest or wants to participate in. It doesn't really matter to us. And I think this could partly explain why girls are more likely to exhibit in these kinds of moments these so called masculine tendencies which are then misinterpreted or have been misinterpreted by crazy people and abusive people to be a symptom of gender dysphoria and a sign that the girl is transgender or whatever. Boys are less likely to exhibit those kinds of signs, those signs because they tend to stick with what they like and they're less prone to change or adapt for the sake of being communal or bonding with people or what have you, which just adds to the tragedy because that is a positive sort of attribute of being a girl and being a woman. This wanting to be communal with other people and adapting their interests, that's a good thing, it's a positive thing. But it's been twisted against them by these gender ideologues. Our best deal of the year isn't done yet. Cyber Monday is here. And that means you can still get 50% off new daily wire annual memberships. No codes required. Just head to dailywire.com cyber Monday. Become a member today for half the regular price with Dailywire. Plus you get it all. Uncensored daily shows with limited ads, live breaking news you can trust, and unlimited access to our full catalog of entertainment that's reshaping the culture. From the number one documentary of the decade, Am I Racist? Or Jordan B. Peterson's incredible new series, the Gospels. Plus so much more. It's all waiting for you. With your support, we will continue to fight the left and build the future. Join us now. Go to dailywire.com cyber Monday. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. For our daily cancellation today, we return to the viral YouTube series called Surrounded, produced by Jubilee. When we last checked in with this series, Ben Shapiro was facing down a ragtag collection of blue haired leftists. They didn't all actually have blue hair. In fact, I think none of them did. But blue hair at this point is as much a spiritual state as a physical one. In any case, it was not a fair fight. All the blue hairs took turns embarrassing themselves, as you would expect. Now it turns out that Pete Buttigieg, our soon former transportation secretary, did his own Surrounded episode a day before the election. Buttigieg was surrounded by 25 alleged undecided voters and his task was to defend Kamala's policies against their extremely softball questions and challenges. Apparently he didn't do a great job because Kamala went on to get totally demolished the very next day, as you probably recall. I don't think that was entirely the fault of Buttigieg's poor performance in this video. He's likely only about 80% to blame. But there's one clip that several weeks later is just now going viral. Leftists on Twitter are passing it around with glowing praise for Buttigieg. They think one answer in particular was so brilliant and so incisive and so profound that it points the way forward for the Democratic Party in the future. Somebody named Micah Irfan initially posted the clip. It got 15,000 likes, almost 4 million views. He adds this caption. He says, quote, send this man on every podcast for the next four years and we will win all 50 states. Now somebody else agrees with a tweet that garnered 23,000 likes. They add most of the Jubilee Surrounded videos are frustrating to get through. For me, the Pete Buttigieg episode is their best so far. The voters are challenging him and the conversation is substantial. This is a clip from the discussion on lowering crime rates. So this is a high praise indeed. I Mean, it's the highest imaginable praise. Apparently. What Buttigieg says here about lowering crime rates is so tremendous that it would win the support of a majority of voters in every state in the country. This man's talents have apparently been wasted on the Transportation Department. For the past four years, he could have been working on eliminating crime. He couldn't make the trains run on time or even stay on the tracks, but he can solve the problem of crime, and here's how he plans to do it. Watch.
