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They would rather use sanitized terms like gender affirming surgery and gender affirming care as opposed to actually showing people what these procedures entail in real life. And in that sense, gender activists have a lot in common with abortion advocates. They'll throw a million euphemisms against the wall, but they definitely don't want you to see what this stuff is in practice. They don't want you to see an abortion in practice, because once any moral, sane person witnesses something as grotesque and abhorrent as an abortion, they'll oppose it immediately. No amount of political indoctrination will convince them otherwise. And by the same token, trans activists have generally understood that nobody wants to actually see these gender affirming procedures or their immediate aftermath that they talk about so much. They know that support for trans ideology would collapse if more people observed what exactly this butchery entails. Indeed, support for trans ideology has collapsed precisely for that reason. But there are some activists who are so committed, so brainwashed, that they can't help. They can't help themselves. They are the true believers of the religion, to the point that they genuinely can't perceive how even the most shocking barbarism will come across to everyone else. So they film it and they advertise it. They revel in the kinds of horrors that will shake any morally decent person to his core. And that's why millions of people have just become familiar with an Instagram account called Disabled transboy. It's everywhere on the Internet at the moment, largely due to reporting by Sarah Fields, Andy Ngo, Billboard Chris and a few others. The account belongs to somebody using the name Micah Leroy, with he him, pronouns listed. The channel's description reads, I have CP cerebral palsy and I'm also a trans man. Now, before I play some videos from this account, I want to make it clear that this is a very troubling story. The details and kind of the full picture are emerging gradually, thanks to the journalists I just mentioned, and then finally the Daily Mail, which I'll get to in a few moments. So I'm going to present the information as we currently have it. Over the past several weeks, the Disabled Trans Boy account has uploaded videos that appear to document the process of a 19 year old woman who is disabled obtaining a quote unquote gender affirming double mastectomy so that she looks less feminine. This is someone who has cerebral palsy, a disorder that severely affects motor control. It also is a disorder associated in many cases with a significant degree of cognitive impairment. And yet this person was able to obtain apparently top surgery. A doctor permanently altered her body with irreversible surgery despite the fact that she is very severely disabled. Now, here's the most recent video on the account, which, again, is extremely hard to watch. So if you're watching the video version of this podcast and you have any kids in the room with you at the moment, I would pause the show and come back to it when they're not around, because this, as I said, is deeply disturbing. But it's what's happening right now in this country. So here it is. It's so unimaginably horrific that your first reaction, or hope anyway, is that it must be some kind of bizarre hoax. I mean, you want to conclude that there's no way that any doctor would agree to perform this procedure or that somebody would film any of this proudly and put it on the Internet. It seems like it has to be some kind of setup, or maybe it's being taken out of context. You might think you may wonder whether this young woman actually had a double mastectomy because she had breast cancer or something, but that does not appear to be what happened here. All of the evidence, including a Daily Mail interview with this disabled woman and her family that we'll get to in a moment, clearly indicates that, indeed, doctors removed the breasts of a disabled young woman in order to try to turn her into a boy. And this video is not a one off. There are posts documenting this woman's journey. There's one video, for instance, which was uploaded just prior to the double mastectomy being performed. It's from December of last year. The description reads, quote, it's the night before top surgery. I'm so effing excited. After one month, I'll be free. Bye. And there's content like this going back for several years. One post from May of 2023, for example, reads, I'm so excited to get my name change on my birth certificate. Another caption appears next to this image from March 2023, which shows the girl in a. In a parking lot. And the caption reads, quote, I saw a doctor today that said that I'm almost ready to get on T hashtag transgender pride, hashtag queer disabled pride, hashtag ftm. There's only one comment under the image. It reads, quote, awesome. Everyone should be able to live as their true self. A few weeks later, there's a Bunch of posts documenting her use of testosterone. And then there's this footage in which someone who identifies as autistic persuades this, quote, disabled trans individual to touch a pot, even though the pot says that disabled people shouldn't touch it. Watch. I'm Amelia. Mike. This is Micah. I bought him a plug and pop for college. Number four on the instruction packet. Hold on, I'm finding it. He gets a hoot out of this. Says do not let people with disabilities or children approach the pot to avoid burns. Micah has cp, among others. I have autism. We're gonna touch this can. Yeah, so I mean, the whole thing is just painful to watch, so we'll just cut it off there. She's clearly being used for clout by activists who don't care about her. And she clearly doesn't have the capacity to consent to any of this stuff, even as an adult. Spoiler alert. In case you're interested, they both do touch the pan. I mean, the reason why you wouldn't want someone like that touching a pot like that is that it gets really hot. And she obviously does not have full use of her extremities. And so trying to manage a very hot pan like that could cause severe burns. It's not ableism, it's just the reality. Now, the woman's name before she or her parents changed, it was Mara J. Leroy, and she's from Minneapolis. Andy Ngo reports that Mara's mother is, unsurprisingly, a DEI anti Trump activist who is, quote, extremely woke and has involved her child in her leftist activism. She's been separated from the girl's father for some time. Surprise, surprise. And Billboard Chris reports that the divorce was finalized about two years ago. No. Says that Mara was medically transitioned, quote unquote, in high school, presumably as a minor, prior to receiving this double mastectomy. And the Instagram account that we were just looking at would certainly support that reporting. No? Also reports that a state representative named Alicia Lish Klosowski was recently photographed with Mara and her mother to celebrate legislation that would advance gender inclusive restrooms, among other left wing agenda items. And here's that image. And as you can see, Mara and her mother appear to be in the bottom corner there, along with the legislator who uses they them pronouns, by the way. And since these videos and images began going viral, this legislator hasn't responded in any way. I mean, this is how normalized all this insanity is in left wing jurisdictions like Minneapolis Democrat politicians openly for supporting it. And then there's this from the journalist Sarah Fields. She found this post from the Disabled Trans Boy account from a year ago and as you can see, it reads, quote, this literally changed my whole life in five minutes. Being there my first year of Yig, because before I had no idea about pronouns, but now look at me. Close quote Yig, in case you're unfamiliar, stands for Youth in Government. It's a YMCA program that puts high schoolers and middle schoolers in model governments and states across the country. And apparently with support from the government, they are indoctrinating disabled children into gender ideology. I mean, you heard it just there, you saw it in the caption. I didn't know about any of this stuff and now I'm into it. I'm fully bought in. Late last night, the Daily Mail picked up this story. They reached out to the disabled woman and her family to kind of get their side of the story here. And I'm going to read a section of this article. The kicker comes at the end, so stick around. Quote A transgender teen with cerebral palsy who went viral after posting about her breast removal surgery has told DailyMail.com that she knew what she was doing and is happy with her choices. Michael Leroy, 19, a University of Minnesota student, had a double mastectomy last month and shared footage about the procedure and her painful but swift recovery on Instagram. Those videos exploded on conservative social media on Thursday, with critics calling Micah a victim who should have not have been greenlighted for a sex change because of her disability. But speaking with DailyMail.com, micah said she had a long history of gender identity issues and that she is glad she provoked a reaction because she wanted to blow up the Internet. Micah's case raises tough questions about whether disabled people and minors should be allowed to take puberty blockers across sex hormones and undergo sex change operations. Micah's disability, cerebral palsy, affects movement and muscle control. She's able to speak and write for herself, gets straight A's in college and is involved in state politics. I am making these decisions, said Micah. I am my own legal guardian and people don't understand that. Now we'll get to the kicker because, you know, you might hear that she's able to speak and then you get these very clear quotes. I'm making my own decisions. And it might seem a little bit odd to you because we just played the video of this person and it seems pretty apparent from that video that she really can't speak. We just heard it. So what do you mean she can speak and communicate? Well, here it is. Daily Mail reports this Micah can speak on her own, but was aided in this interview by her mom, Kathy Leroy, who was effectively translating her words. Ah, okay. Then Micah explained how she's not being exploited and coerced by her parents. And we know that because her parents translated and told us that that's what she said. Now, needless to say, the doctors and parents in this situation deserve to be in prison. This is one of the most horrific cases of abuse of the disabled that we've ever seen. I mean, this is. It shocks the conscience. That is, if you actually have a conscience. Which explains why trans activists see this not as shocking and horrific and the sort of thing that should send multiple people to prison, but as something wonderful and worth boasting about. Now, as terrifying as all this is, you might be tempted, if you're extremely, extremely naive, to kind of dismiss this story as an aberration, as not reflective of the gender transition industry broadly. You might say, for example, that some doctor must have gone rogue here to perform this operation on someone who's so clearly disabled. But that's not the case. As the Post Millennial reported several years ago, leading experts in the field of so called trans medicine have said that autistic nonverbal minors can consent to sex changes. In fact, there was a conference recently featuring a lead author on the WPATH transgender guidelines in which this very topic was discussed. Quoting from the Post Millennial, some of the world's leading experts in transgender healthcare convened in San Francisco. Psychiatrist Dan Karasic delivered a talk titled Managing Patients with Co Occurring Mental Health Diagnoses. And in the audience was none other than Dr. Diane Ehrensaft, a leading figure in the field of child sex changes, who shared baffling anecdotes about nonverbal children expressing their gender identities. The Post Millennial says it obtained audio of the talk, which quote, in which quote, karasik can be heard asserting that severe autism should not prevent a person from being approved for an experimental medical sex change, dismissing the common concern of parents that a fixation on gender is due to the intense focus of interest typical of autism spectrum disorder and engaging in the bizarre exchange of ideas about youth communicating their transgender identity through drawing. In other words, the bleeding edge of so called trans medicine is that children who can't even speak are somehow capable of revealing that they're born in the wrong bodies. And of course, this is a fundamental tenet of trans ideology. They often talk about recognizing, quote, trans children shortly after birth. But this ideology is now being put into practice in a new way. It's resulting in Irreversible surgeries for young people, even severely disabled and impaired young people, which are being broadcast on Instagram now. Yes, it's true that the woman in these videos is not a minor. Legally, she's 19 years old. According to the reporting we have, she was brought into the sex change pipeline as a minor. And then shortly after she became an adult, the surgery was apparently done. She may be suffering from a crippling disability and she may be extremely easy to coerce and manipulate. But according, according to leading experts in the field of gender affirming care, she can consent somehow to having her body permanently disfigured. So this is a story that underscores, once again, the need to abolish all of these so called gender affirming surgeries. Regardless of the victim's age, whether you're over the age of 18 or not, it is still unspeakably evil to remove the healthy body parts of people who are confused about their identity. The gender transition industry does not suddenly become ethical just because the patient happens to be 18 years old. Regardless of the person's age. They're still being manipulated and led into doing things which have consequences that they do not fully comprehend. And the result, as you saw, is horrifying beyond all imagining. The truth is that nobody, regardless of disability or mental capacity or lack thereof, should be subjected to medical experimentation and disfigurement. So once we outlaw the mutilation of children, the next step is to ban it for everyone. Protecting kids, as I've always said, is only step one. Step two is to take down the whole industry entirely, every piece of it, and leave nothing standing. A full ban across the board, regardless of age, regardless of circumstance, is the only way, is the only way to end this wickedness once and for all. Now let's get to our five headlines. Let's start with this, because why not? It's Friday. Kathy Hochul gave her State of the State address for New York a couple of days ago. And I could give that address very quickly. The state of the state is that it's bad. Things are bad. You've got psychotic hobos running wild on the subway. You got crime, violence, drugs, vigilantes gunning people down in the street. I mean, it's literally Gotham City, so it's bad. But Kathy wanted to distract from that. She wanted to make up for how horrible things are. And she did that by. And I did look this up. This is real. This actually happened. This is not a joke. She did that by opening the State of the State address with a Dance performance. Now, not by her. Okay, it wasn't quite that bad. She didn't start dancing, but she brought in an allegedly professional dance troupe to perform for the assembled crowd who thought that they were coming just to a, you know, standard political speech. And instead they got this watch. All dressed up in black and white and you're dressed in that dress I like nothing Swinging in the ant Let me show you a few things Let me show you a few things show you a few things of now we're in the swing of love Let me show you a few things show you a few things There you go. That's a professional dance troupe. These are the pros. They dance for a living and yet somehow they can't dance. I mean, this is a real problem, I have to say. You know, there are just. In my opinion, there are just far too many people dancing these days, and so few of them know how to dance. I mean, there is. There's so much dancing going on, and I just think we need to. We need to get a hold on this. We gotta. We gotta do something about it. I'm not. I'm not saying that. That people should be banned from dancing generally. I'm not saying that we should outlaw dancing. I'm not like the bad guy from Footloose, who. I mean, I never saw Footloose. I don't really know what it's about, but I assume that it's what is there. The villain wants to outlaw dancing. And then Kevin Bacon is like, no, I'm gonna dance. And then he dances and the other guy. I don't. I don't know what the. But, but it's not that. I'm not saying but I'm saying that we should only allow those who are qualified to dance. There's just so much dancing happening these days on camera, so often for people who don't know what they're doing. And I don't think the rest of us should be subjected to it. It's a public health cris. It's a public health crisis is what it is, that the rest of us have to watch this. So you should have to get a dancing license. You should have to go to a DMV dancing management something. We'll work on the. We'll work on the acronym, but you should go to a DMV style place to show off your dance moves and then you get a license and it expires five years or something. And that performance would be unlawful, unlicensed dancing. And everybody involved would be executed or just sent to Prison. I'm just kidding. They would just go to prison. Fox News has this. The FBI has closed its DEI office. Fox News can confirm. In recent weeks, the FBI took steps to close the Office of Diversity and inclusion effective by December 2024. The agency didn't specify why it had closed the office, although many Republicans have been critical of it. And it's prioritizing of diversity, equity, inclusion, saying that it overshadowed national security. Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn sent a letter earlier this month to FBI Director Christopher Wray claiming that radical DEI practices had endangered Americans following the New Year's Day terrorist attack in New Orleans. And now, with just a few days until Trump officially takes office, they're disbanding the DEI office now. And it also says the FBI's Office of Diversity and Inclusion was created in 2012 during the Obama administration with its goal to provide guidance and implement programs that promote a diverse and inclusive workplace that allows all employees to succeed in advance. So it's very encouraging to see that these massive changes are happening already and Trump still has not officially taken office. DEI is careening rapidly towards the trash bin of history. It's not only being defeated, it's not only being torn down, but it is barely, it is going to be barely even remembered when things are said and done. Because keep in mind, most of these institutions adopted DEI. Well, they said with the FBI it was in 2012, still very recent, but many of these institutions adopted DEI and it kind of was mainstreamed in the last three, four years. Most people had never even heard of it before then. And soon nobody will hear about it anymore. And it becomes this weird little blip on the radar, this short and rather bizarre episode of history, which is why the major risk that I can see right now and the thing that we need to look out for as we head into the coming months and years, the potential problem caused by all of these victories, one after another, politically and culturally, it really has been win after win and even in the courts. So. But the risk is that is that it will, as we've discussed, potentially cause a sense of complacency. And that's the one thing we need to guard against, not to rain on the parade or take away from the celebration over the wins. You know, I've said many times it's important to celebrate the wins. That is an actual thing that we should do. But once we've done that, you got to get back, back in the game. Because here's the thing, what's important to understand is that, I mean, look at all these things that are crashing and burning right now. Wokeism, dei, gender ideology, the left wing race hustle, it's all collapsing. We're landing blow after blow. And so it might feel like society is kind of waking up from a stupor and people are looking around and going, man, how did I ever support that? What happened? And some of that is happening. I mean, there are some people who are almost literally waking up. And for those specific people, you don't have to worry about them falling back under these particular spells. So the person who was tolerant of or even actively supportive of something like gender ideology a few years ago, but now sees it as the insanity that it is. And there are a lot of people in this category. It's very unlikely that that person, a couple of years from now will be back to being a trans activist again. Because once you wake up and see this stuff for what it is, you can't unsee it. But the point is that the people, the forces that pushed this stuff, the institutions, the powerful people who use these things to manipulate and coerce and gain and retain power, they never believed any of it to begin with. So there's been no revelation for them. They didn't wake up. Right. They knew what they were doing all along. There's been no conversion experience, no revelatory moment for them. And those people still exist. They're not going away. They're not going to say, oh man, we really screwed this one up, and then just go away. No, they're still plotting. They aren't just gonna give up their power and influence. So now they're looking for the next dei, the next gender ideology, the next Covid, the next George Floyd. All of these events and ideas that they use to manipulate so many people in so many horrifying ways, they're looking for the next one. And the important thing to understand about that is that the next one, when I say the next one, that doesn't mean that we're going to see an exact replay of those particular events and ideas. Like they say, history doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme. And so they're going to look for the thing that rhymes with the thing before. Not that is exactly that. So you hear people say, oh, they're looking for their next George Floyd. And certainly they are. But the next George Floyd won't necessarily be just another black guy killed by the cops, where they try to recreate the hysteria that followed. And with that hysteria, they were able to exploit to maximum effect. Now maybe that will be the next George Floyd. They've made some attempts to kind of recapture that magic. But most likely the next George Floyd is some other kind of singular event taken wildly out of context and used to inflame the resentments and anger of certain groups against others. And it doesn't necessarily have to be another police brutality event. It's the same thing with COVID Everyone says, well, what's the next Covid? And yeah, maybe when we talk about the next Covid, it's gonna be some other virus disease that they come along and say, oh, you gotta quarantine for this. But most likely it won't be that, at least not anytime soon. The next Covid will be. Could be something else. It could be some other kind of thing that they tell us is a public health crisis. And you have to radically, radically change the way that you go about your everyday life because of this thing. Maybe is a virus or maybe is something else. And we've seen this repeat over and over again. That's how they get away with it. That's how they get away with repeating and using the same kind of tools and methods to control people is because if you're not aware and if you're easily manipulated, you'll look at it and you'll say, no, this is totally different from that thing before. This isn't the next George Floyd. What do you mean? This is totally different? So we have to. We cannot not become complacent, as I said. All right, here's a headline from. What is this? From Washington Post, a headline that is supposed to, I guess, sound sinister. The headline is Anti abortion advocates look for men to report their partners abortions. The article says as anti abortion advocates launch legal efforts to stop abortion pills from reaching women in states with bans, they are increasingly turning to one group with uniquely intimate and specific information to help them find cases. Male sex partners of women who decided to end their pregnancies. The strategy propelled a first of its kind lawsuit filed last month by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that cited firsthand information from an unnamed biological father to accuse a New York doctor of illegally providing abortion pills to a woman in the Dallas area. The case was inspired by a report Paxton's office received from the man and emerged as part of a broader abortion law enforcement operation the attorney general has quietly created that includes searching for potential plaintiffs. This partner focused approach will shift to a more public phase next month when Texas's largest anti abortion organization launches an advertising campaign on Facebook and X to reach the husbands, boyfriends and sex partners of women who have had abortions in the state. With the goal of recruiting them to file lawsuits against those who assisted the women in ending their pregnancies. Quote, the strategy right now is to tell dads that if you're the father of a child victim of an abortion, you have legal rights. There may be a way to hold these people accountable. That's according to John Seago, the president of Texas Right to Life. And so that's what they're going to be looking to do. And this is what in, of course, the Washington Post reporting and left wing media in general, this is what they're going to try to portray as this deeply sinister thing, because they're trying to get the husbands and boyfriends and sex partners of women to turn around and narc on their own wives and girlfriends. No, what's actually happening here is, well, it's exactly what the president of Right to Life in Texas said. It's actually empowering the men who are fathers of these children and who historically, thanks to so called abortion rights, have had their parenting rights totally stripped from them. If you live in a state where abortion is legal and you're a father, you have zero rights over your own child. You have zero parenting rights for the first about nine months of that child's existence, because the first nine months of a child's existence occur in the womb. And during that time, if you are, as I said, a man in a place where abortion is legal, then you have no parenting rights, you have no parental rights whatsoever. Which means that to the extent that your child can be killed, can be removed from the earth and you don't even get a vote. And this has obviously been going on for as long as abortion has existed in this country legally. Men are, when we talk about the kind of unseen, unheard victims of abortion, I mean, all the victims really are unheard. The first and primary victims obviously are the children who are unheard who don't have a voice. But there are also the men who are barely even talked about. Now, we do hear even from pro lifers quite often about the men who on the other side, on the flip side of this coin, are actually pressuring their wives and girlfriends to get abortions. So we hear about that and we hear those men being condemned constantly and their behavior deserves to be condemned. I mean, that's contemptible evil, those kinds of cases where in fact, the man wants the abortion to happen even more than the woman does and the man's pressuring the woman. Now, of course, the difference there is that the man actually has no legal authority to force it. So the woman still has all the rights in that scenario. But, yeah, there are plenty of cases where a man uses other means to pressure a woman to get abortion. It's an awful thing. So we do hear about that. What we hardly ever hear about are the men, and there are thousands of them. I mean, at this point, through the whole history of legal abortion in this country, probably millions of men who lost their children and did not want that to happen, were not supportive of it, did not want it, in fact, even begged the mother of the child, please don't do this. Don't take my child from me, who told the mother, I will raise the child, and had no voice and no rights, and had to just sit by and watch as their child was killed. And it's. And we, these men are almost never acknowledged and are given no recourse. So this is what's happening now, at least in Texas, will be the tiniest little move in the direction of actually giving men some kind of power or at least some recourse when this happens to them. And. And that is a very good thing. A very good thing amid a just incomprehensibly awful situation. All right, well, lighten things up considerably here. Here's a viral TikTok video that I've been tagged in this a million times, and this is the only reason I know about it, but it's got millions of views. And in this case, this is a guy who made a video that seems to be really resonating with a lot of people, and here he's calling out the white conservative men who are judgmental of his hobbies. As I said, it's been viewed millions of times, apparently. Great insights here in this video. Let's. Let's watch it.