Transgender Rights II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses the latest round of attacks on transgender rights, what’s at stake, and the filthiest of the “Peanuts” characters.
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[@Keltain]

“We do need to cut your uterus out as soon as possible” As an adult whose been trying to do that for over a decade for health and not gender reasons, WHERE IS THIS DOCTOR

[@elipoyet7884]

Hahahha same, we need the address !!!

[@A_T216]

If you're in Toronto, Canada, I can give you the name of my doctor!!

[@darcymarie3486]

BIG SAME. HELP ME FIND THEM

[@ttthecat]

Same happened to my friend who was trying to get her tubes tied. She'd already have one child, she was married and did not want to have more children and her doctor refused to give her the tubal litigation she requested because "she might want more kids" my friends was 28 at the time. 🤭 Grown enough to have children but not grown enough to say no more kids?Where are these eager surgeons that will cut you at a moment's notice?👀

[@OGimouse1]

I've been having my period all but 3 total weeks if you add up the days and the hours since last November despite going on the shot in May to stop it. No fibroids, no cysts, no reason for it to have started and continuing. I informed my doctor I want a hysterectomy because I can't afford my uterus anymore. I was told to cut down on my heating because my child-free, fur-baby brain might find the right man sometime in the "next what could be 35 years--you got women in India getting IVF!" No, bro, I'm going to starve to death way before then for the privilege of bleeding out of everything I own all day, every day for 11 months. I'm exhausted, anemic, and all the tests are coming back "normal" so it's "just a weird quirk." FUCK ING PASS

[@adrienrenaux6211]

I like to imagine one person in the writing team that has a folder FULL of potential Ted Cruz poems to get out at ANY occasion

[@zeppie_]

Bold of you to think that John doesn’t make it up on the spot where the script says nothing more than “Ted Cruz poem here”

[@KootFloris]

Ted Cruz, God's other mistake

[@Jimmyvdpost]

@@zeppie_ nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing, is improvised with these kinda shows. I like John Oliver but this is all very staged

[@CollectionOfCells]

@@Jimmyvdpost umm, I'm pretty sure it's sarcasm

[@fathuman]

@@KootFloris God only made two mistakes?

[@MDaggatt]

The craziest thing about the litter box rumor is that it came from an edited video of a teacher who was talking about how fucked up the US school system is because she was given a bucket and litter IN CASE A KID HAD TO GO TO THE BATHROOM DURING A SCHOOL SHOOTING.

[@MDaggatt]

She was also given a first aid kit and a sharpie so she could write information on the kids for when the paramedics found them.

[@jodinsan]

Ignoring a real and serious issue to clutch their pearls over a comically exaggerated nonissue is rule one of modern Conservatism.

[@Mr.FadedGlory]

I love the little girl who "crushed it" reading from a transcript obviously written by someone else. If God doesn't make mistakes then what's with all the hormones and surgery? John Oliver is an obtuse shill for the left wing. These poor kids

[@ragalyiakos]

@@Mr.FadedGlory God made trans people for the exact same reason God made grapes, but not wine. Why they mad wheat, but not bread. Why they made trees, but not planks or a house.

[@thefourthone1843]

Identifying as a cat, totally understandable and reasonable. Thinking that someone who identifies as a cat might want to use a litter box, absolutely insane you far right bigot! You people are missing the forest for the trees…Somehow reasonable people are the crazy ones because we think chopping off body parts and giving minors drugs is a bit much.

[@Spencerdoken]

The moment Ted Cruz said "my pronouns are kiss my ass" the entire news media should have just taken him at his word. Used those as his pronouns without batting an eye in perpetuity.

[@ThePoodle]

"yeah ass really killed kiss role in my newest film"

[@sophiepooks2174]

Yes just like in the movie "idiocrasy" should have a bar code put on his arm so everyone knows how to pronounce.

[@lays5277]

The funny part is that he said my pronoun is and not my pronouns are so would be "ted went to the store, and kissmyass bought milk for kissmyass's wife."

[@katemendoza7131]

Hey, that’s what kiss my ass asked to be called, we need to respect it.

[@WibblyWobbly1905]

*the moment Ted Cruz said "my pronouns are kiss my ass" the entire news media should have just taken as at ass's word. Used those as asses pronouns without batting an eye in perpetuity

[@gardeneroflight]

When he said that "yes, God does make mistakes" I was so certain that they were going to put up a photo of Ted Cruz.

[@xmlthegreat]

Missed opportunity there but I guess they can only stomach cruz for so long before they have to start paying their editors hazard pay.

[@catrasredemption6981]

Wait that WASN'T Ted Cruz?

[@ChantingInTheDark]

🤣Thought the same thing! LMAO!

[@pvic6959]

@@catrasredemption6981 EEEEEEEEEEEE

[@keithferris9574]

Me too!!!

[@Kdawn1995]

The fact that this guy used the "uterus removal" example really proves how out of touch these people are. I'm nearly 30 and haven't been able to find a Dr who would even allow me to get my tubes tied, much less a hysterectomy.

[@animeartist888]

Same and same. Can't believe how ignorant they are.

[@bluefox726]

Sounds like the way to go is to claim you're trans!

[@Kdawn1995]

@@bluefox726 The problem is they don't actually remove trans people's uteruses no questions asked like that either it's just not a thing.

[@r-platt]

They are hyper-focused on destroying all trans lives. Just like a thief, they don't care about collateral damage or even human life - except the lives of those like themselves.

[@Pollypole]

I highly suggest looking into the Childfree subreddit group...they have a list of doctors to see in each state who will do the surgeries. It's been life changing for so many people!

[@guillermoalcantara8608]

John is STILL GOING with the Ted Cruz poem, and I am all for it Edit: Man, these comments are wild 🤣 It seems the grass will remain untouched another day

[@couragekarnga8735]

Someone needs to make a compilation of those!

[@trashcatlinol]

I get he was doing a poem, but Cruz made it very clear what kiss my ass's preferred pronouns were. I just can't explain how sad it made me John's team couldn't work that into the the rhyme. It would have been the chef's kiss.

[@perpetuallylost1814]

Or he should collect them, publish and sell it and send the proceeds equally to all the groups Ted Cruz discriminates against

[@MrStartingup]

totally was the point of this episode, your takeaway is on point🙄🙄🙄

[@trashcatlinol]

@@perpetuallylost1814 good God! That'd leave each organization with a fraction of a penny IF the book made it to the top of the bestseller list....

[@Minumer]

"I do not like spending my free time asking adults to make good choices." LMAO. What a fucking legend.

[@nikobellic570]

Those are not that little boy's words. Their his narcissistic mother's

[@tenthant]

@@nikobellic570 Got some proof for your claim?

[@seansharpes4219]

@nikobellic570 I believe you’re looking for the words little girl Thank you very much…

[@felipecouto1102]

@@nikobellic570 Great to see americans don't take kids at their word because ''its their parents brainwashing'', but when its something that they want ''The parents are the one who know better for their kid''.

[@miriamart9712]

A year has passed and I don't know how I feel about it since some male athletes have transitioned to female sports.

[@Darknight24x]

"If a child has to be an activist, we have already failed that child." Well said 👏

[@GCNMMA]

If a child is told that puberty blockers can be easily reversed like a “pause and rewind button on HBO Max” we have failed that child

[@peakedmalefeminist9782]

These children are being muchhausen by proxy abused and the depraved left are enjoying watching these children be turned into effigies for the new trans occult religion.

[@Jay-ho9io]

@@GCNMMA source?

[@dizzlegrizzle1919]

if you really think that child is a confused trans gender 7 year old and not a manipulated and coached talking piece then you ard a damn fool who needs to get to know gets better

[@dantehampton2570]

@@GCNMMA aww someone didn't pay attention

[@truebornseeker9767]

You know what’s depressing about the “kids are using cat litter trays!” Story? Apparently that story originated from a story that schools were putting buckets with cat litter in classrooms so if the school was put under a school shooting lockdown for long enough that students might need the bathroom and unable to leave

[@oneandonlyjark]

It's also depressing that, as usual, those areas blame the bogeyman groups that they collectively refer to as "The Left," and act like these situations - even if true - are recent upheavals caused by upstarts. 20-25 years ago, during the decline of Mainstream Media's anti-liberal bias (yes, kids, the MSM was squarely in the right'd favour at one time!), i once saw a news special on growing decorative disfigurement trends in transhumanism (note that transhumanism has literally nothing to do with LGBTQIA+). There was a man who tatoo'd tiger stripes all over his body, cut slits at the corners of his eyes, wore feline-eye contacts, disfigured his lip clefts and filed his teeth into points. He even wore whiskers. That guy wasn't transexual or transgender (afaik), so it goes to show that human dysmorphia, odd behaviours and disfigurement are NOT attributed to sexual orientation or gender ID. It's independent. So even us normies are prone to identifying as fucking tigers.

[@stevetaylor3681]

When the attacks on Mumbai happened, a large group of people were hiding in a banquet room for a extended period at the Tah Mahal Palace Hotel. The staff set up divider screens and behind them on the floor were piles of towels and tablecloths for people to use as a bathroom. It is sad that people need to plan for surprise attacks by gunmen, because it happens so often.

[@jacobwansleeben3364]

I heard it originated from a teacher at the school in question who spread the rumour to demonstrate that people will believe anything they read on the internet. Although, since I read that on the internet, I'd be hypocritical if I didn't take it with a grain of salt.

[@momchilandonov]

@@jacobwansleeben3364 well there are tons of stuff on the internet that turn out to be true. Imagine Elon Musk firing so many twitter employees BY MISTAKE that the HR department made a specific category for them! It sounds like something from The Onion :D. There was recently an insane case where a MURDER SUSPECT called to the police to complain about cold fries from McDonalds and got arrested!!! If there are so dumb people who assist the police to get captured instead of laying low I don't find it that far out of reach to shit in a cat litter. Some people actually legally married to VIDEO GAME CHARACTERS! Here is the proof for the murder suspect kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZO2lZipqNWepZo

[@shirlot]

@@mr.fancypants666 the problem I have with that is the "solution to a problem that doesn't exist" mentality. As noted in the video transgender people dominating sports just isn't happening. However, let's say we did take the left's solution and put it into practice. Transgender kids are given the information early enough to express themselves and get onto puberty blockers. That means that when they compete in teen sports, they're at a disadvantage compared to their cisgender peers; because their cisgender peers have gone through puberty and they haven't due to the blockers.

[@livingcorpse5664]

"they immediately cut off their families" Probably cause families disown them and even threaten to kill them. You can't abandon someone who abandoned you first.

[@anandpandey5331]

"you can't abandon someone who abandoned you first" that hits really fuckin deep.

[@ElIbroDelos5anillos]

Lgbtqi+

[@ZackSilver77]

Transgender and far left woke ideolody will die soon. More people are waking up

[@livingcorpse5664]

@@ZackSilver77 I love when people like you tell on yourself.

[@freya002YT]

Yep

[@Sellswordking]

the sheer emotion in John’s voice when he says “Trans people are not by default unhappier, or more prone to sufffering than everyone else, that is something that *we* are putting on them.” like he can’t believe he has to explain this, and it’s breaking his heart.

[@alphauno6614]

Most people who are diagnosed with gender dysphoria do have substantially higher rates of depression so that's actually false information. Don't bend the facts to suit your narrative because all it does is give the other side that 'a ha we knew it they are all liars!' moment.

[@eeeemmteeee]

accept for the fact that they are statistically by default already less happy than the general population. This is a known factor you're ignoring because of a religious cult doctrine. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6830528/

[@NatalieN500]

It’s because John Oliver is kind and compassionate. He genuinely cares about people

[@baldemarcastillo675]

Man this video did not age well 😂

[@Sellswordking]

@@baldemarcastillo675 lmfao be so fucking forreal

[@jaymzwooten]

That dude has never had a someone in his life who has tried to get a hysterectomy. We have a co-worker with uterine cancer and she can't find a Dr who will do it all because she's "too young and may want more kids"

[@cwn41]

This. This part doesn’t get enough attention.

[@AlexReynard]

Yes. When that is happening at the same time that organizations like GALAP are giving out free letters of surgical reccomendation to anyone who asks, that is not evidence that kids aren't being fast-tacked to TG surgery. It's evidence of a galling double standard in patient care.

[@aldranzam3456]

what the actual fuck-

[@soulcstudios]

Very hard have a baby when your uterus is riddled with tumors or, you know, if you're dead.

[@jamomeara1894]

Then there’s more to the story.

[@Direfloof]

John’s bit ending in, “I don’t know. I’ll be dead soon,” had me laughing embarrassingly loudly in an empty room.

[@eldiboblo923]

You laughed at something he said? There's actually people out there that do that?

[@chrispeterson1247]

We can all only wish he is right.

[@MarianaSilva-kh4io]

@@eldiboblo923 Yes. This is a comedy show too, why the surprise?

[@duckified.]

@@eldiboblo923 WOAH... people can have different senses of humor than you?!?!? shocking

[@duckified.]

@Bobby source?

[@jasminelambert3753]

I love the argument that a child could just go ask for a hysterectomy and get it from a doctor lol. Grown adult women who actually NEED hysterectomies have to jump through a million hoops to actually get that care 9 times out of 10. I don’t think that man making that argument has ever talked to a person with a uterus who has reproductive health issues lmao

[@grayonthewater]

Right? What a joke

[@redstoneactive6589]

That statement needs a slight change, he's never spoken to a person with uterus.

[@megan_alnico]

"But, you know, you might change your mind later... We don't want to take away your ability to have a fulfilling life." As if making babies is the most fulfilling thing a woman can do.

[@Dutch3DMaster]

@@megan_alnico Better put, as if it's the only thing....

[@ruthsturgeon4979]

What would you know about hysterectomy as trans female. No you do not go through loops to get one that's not true. Why you canparong butchering young teens to hysterectomy surgery. That's absurd they do gender surgery on young teens that's wrong at Vanderbilt and other universities. So why you making the comparison of adult female with medical problems maybe cancer hysterectomy to butchers cutting up under aged teens it's Easy to get one of you have medical problems. Why are you lying why you comparing under aged kids being rob of their breasts wombs or penises at age that's so young. You really are full of shit. The two do not compare dippy .

[@gillesfabbri97]

That lady going 'Fuck you' is priceless

[@CeriseRose]

Fr

[@lillyryann]

I really liked how she actually said because so many people are afraid to curse but in that instance “fuck you” speaks more volumes than “screw you” in my opinion

[@nikobellic570]

The fuck you was directed at her own child, who she's laden with lifelong health complications

[@grimora5713]

My new hero!

[@rs72098]

She sounded like a complete psychopath. Anyone who allows these twisted surgeries and hormones on children HAVE SERIOUS PROBLEMS.

[@MachaMongRuad]

Re doctors being overly willing to perform hysterectomies on children... most doctors aren't even willing to perform a hysterectomy on a grown-ass adult unless it's literally killing the person. "One day you'll change your mind" has been the mantra of women's health providers for ages, I don't see that changing for a child (who, by this thinking, has even more time ahead of them in which to change their mind).

[@NiteMareBliss]

Been there, heard that. 😖

[@debshaw680]

Absolutely. Even after I was too old for babies I couldn’t get it done. Thank god for menopause.

[@kingoso0]

Lo de llevarmkmn!

[@julesk1567]

gee, I‘m starting to wonder whether, apart from good ole misogyny and patriarchal BS, this might be also down to protecting future business opportunities. can‘t do pre-natal care and deliveries on patients with hysterectomies. a hysterectomy you can only perform on (and bill for) a patient once. but with a patient with a womb the possibilities are endless…

[@alphaomega9626]

@@julesk1567 You're just flipping the familiar argument against transgender people that hormones are a pharmaceutical trap. You hate your born-female body so much that you can't understand your own misogyny. That was disgusting. You insulted me. My body is not a bill, you stupid bench.

[@fawfulfan]

For the record, the kids identifying as cats and using litter boxes rumor comes from something incredibly messed up. One school system in Colorado - the one that includes Columbine High School - apparently paid for stashes of cat litter in classrooms in case kids have to relieve themselves while locked down by a mass shooter. That seems to have been the origin of it.

[@NoReplyAsset]

@@riverinflames136 that's hilarious but also idk what's your issue with teens being weirdos. they tend to grow out of that

[@fawfulfan]

@@riverinflames136 yeah I'm calling bullshit on that, starting with the fact that "kitten" is not a pronoun and there's no way to use it as one that makes any grammatical sense.

[@quirkyblackenby]

@@riverinflames136 who cares? Let people be weird

[@riverinflames136]

@@fawfulfan yeah honestly I wouldn’t believe it myself if I hadn’t seen it and it’s not me having a problem with kids being weird, I had a bunch of phases myself (and still do lol) it’s just that I see a lot of people from older generations saying that that stuff doesn’t actually exist and like…. Yes. It does.

[@angrysealion2259]

@@fawfulfan they’re real they’re called neopronouns and even a lot of ppl in the lgbt community don’t support them

[@siddigfan]

As the proud Mama of a trans man, almost 40 now and transitioned for 20 yrs, I want to thank John and his staff so much! I've sent this on to my son and I know he will love you all! Love and Hugs!!!

[@OmarIslamMo]

What in the fuck...

[@edmundbaran8376]

@@OmarIslamMo is there a problem? They are happy, both the mother and her son, i find this really wholesome

[@gigaslyce]

you and your son are awesome

[@In_TheMoonlight]

Wish this were my mom, but unfortunately I don't think she'll ever accept or understand me as my trans self. You're really incredible for this, I hope you know. You deserve every good thing that happens to you.

[@DesOkun]

@@OmarIslamMo What are you upset about?

[@linneathesystemsdruid308]

“Kids shouldn’t have to be activists” That hit a little too hard. I’m 15 and I’ve beer fighting for my rights since I was 10, from trying to get teachers to follow my iep, to writing weekly letters to politicians, I’ve fought more to live happily than some people do in their lives Happiness shouldn’t be a privilege given to those society deems normal

[@theglobalistchannel1471]

You just proved their point. Im starting to think Russia is doing something good here, not allowing any sexual content under 18 and banning all porn

[@linneathesystemsdruid308]

@@theglobalistchannel1471 I’m sorry I’m confused, what does this have to do with my comment? /genq (I’m sorry I’m autistic and sometimes miss things)

[@theglobalistchannel1471]

@@linneathesystemsdruid308 That was not your figth at 10-15. They stole your childhood from you by turning you into an activist instead of teaching. I believe that we shouldn't teach any of that to anyone under the age of consent.

[@lukedoesbutter]

​​​@@theglobalistchannel1471can we have your opinions on jewish people as well?

[@lukedoesbutter]

Don't worry Family people like that don't deserve the time of day and are miserable most of the time. And i'm proud of you as a fellow trans autist

[@jaceybella1267]

The thing about a girl requesting her uterus removed is SO FUNNY to me I'm a sufferer of endometriosis, and I've been asking doctors to give me a hysterectomy since I was twelve years old because my symptoms are painful and disabling (I was missing school regularly due to pain) Never once got a yes! Never! It is NOTORIOUSLY difficult to convince a doctor to do anything that can impact your fertility if you have a uterus and haven't had multiple kids yet. These people are so misinformed it makes me want to tear my hair out. They have no idea what getting care in this country is like

[@jhitchcock5503]

All you'd have to do is say that you're nonbinary to a gender clinic will be happy to sterilize you. They don't care at all about the negative side effects that your doctors cared about.

[@Dutch3DMaster]

Correction concering that last part: They have absolutely no clue what medical care for women or transgender children looks like...

[@marceelino]

@@Dutch3DMaster we can only hope that 58% and more will act on their thoughts.

[@garystahler9112]

John Oliver is a liar.

[@kendomyers]

Considering the number of women who suffered from this throughout history with no hope of treatment before modern medicine...whoever said men are the stonger gender is kidding himself. I hope you get what you need

[@Cixtrist]

ON WHAT PLANET would even an _ADULT_ woman be able to get her uterus out that easily??? Even when it's medically necessary, they basically still won't do it until you get married, and have your husband come in with you and explain to the doc that you're not exaggerating about your own dammed pain.

[@Rime_in_Retrograde]

Plot twist: conservatives actually come from Mars.

[@FreeTheDonbas]

There is a woman who was interviewed by Arielle Scarcella who said she had to fake being trans to get her uterus removed.

[@Rime_in_Retrograde]

@@FreeTheDonbas Source?

[@tiernsshadow]

RIGHT? I'm a middle-aged trans guy currently seeking a hysto with a surgeon who's FAST at getting people approved for it, and we're 6 months in with no surgery date yet because of the prerequisite red tape for gender-affirming healthcare in this country. Every step of the way, I still get asked if I'm going to want a baby. I HAVE AN 8-YEAR-OLD. I REMEMBER Y2K. PLEASE REMOVE THIS DYSPHORIA-INDUCING GOTH WATER BALLOON FROM MY BODY AND LET ME TAKE A NAP.

[@kelammo]

Took me 15 years- with massive medical issue due to my uterus. The pain was debilitating, hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills, no insurance because I had trouble working, an absolute MISERY. Fight for what you need. Talk to different doctors. If one isn’t supportive of something- go to another. Life is too precious to spend in crying in misery, wishing that the offending organ be removed. I woke up from surgery needing no pain meds- even tho it was a hip to hip cut (like a c section). I didn’t need any meds. I could have sex without pain. I wasn’t spending days in bed, unable to move, weeping. Support these trans kids & adults. Often, their very lives depend on it. And we should be a society that accepts & includes differences, especially ones that are personal & ARENT EVEN AFFECTING THE PEOPLE FIGHTING AGAINST THEM! When half of any population is considering suicide- it’s time to make some GD choices. Better choices. And John Oliver is right on the joy- everyone should be able to pursue their joy! As long as you aren’t harming others- rock on!

[@Dancingonthesun]

Ah, "rapid onset gender dysphoria" also known as "my children don't feel comfortable talking to me about their emotions"

[@dariocarraresi1823]

@Phil Davidson As in "literally nobody has been ever diagnosed with ROGD". Like, even the researchers that theorized this "social contagion illness" completely failed to examine ONE single person affected by ROGD.

[@dariocarraresi1823]

@Phil Davidson Except that the researchers didn't find even just one single child who fits that description.

[@HeatherBarks]

god i love when the person talking out of their ass, making up definitions for acronyms as if they're merrian webster themselves, is asking for a source. have you, by chance, had extended contact with a trans man before? have you ever even talked to one before? have any of them ever told you anything remotely close to your own self-proclaimed definition of a term that has no relevance or weight in the real, actual, physical world?

[@HeatherBarks]

ROGD is a made-up term by conservative parents, mainly used as a sort of "intellectual reasoning" as to why their child "suddenly became trans." i know you don't actually understand what it's like to even be in the presence of a trans person to hear their story, let alone step into their shoes, but my conservative parents thought I had it. that it was "just a phase," that "it was brought on so suddenly," and that "they'd never seen the signs." i came out at 14, but lest i forget being as young as 6- far before getting access to the internet and far before my parents started watching conspiracy theory cable news- and wearing towels like dresses after bath time because it made me feel pretty. you asking for sources was just incredibly ironic to me, as throughout your entire tirade through this comment section over the last few months, and over 1000 comments later, I actually haven't seen you cite a single source that wasn't from a blatant anti-trans, far-right activist who's "evidence" was either completely false, had no weight to it whatsoever, or was skewed by the fact that they picked obvious anti-trans demographics to coax their "research" into being swayed in their direction. let me ask you a question. do you have the same favorite color as when you were, say, 10? what about your favorite food? your favorite type of music? do you realize that the human brain evolves over time? and do you realize that as the idea of being trans becomes more mainstream and more accepted, more people are starting to come out as trans, solely because the idea is becoming less stigmatized, and their thoughts and feelings are actually starting to be validated? maybe you've seen the study of what percent of people are left handed, from 1900-today. back before the 1960s, left handed people were forced to write with their right hand because being left handed was unnatural. now, today, once people stopped giving a fuck about what hand you wrote with, the percentage of left handed people skyrocketed in the following couple decades, and then plateaued, because while still uncommon, left handed people were allowed to be their fucking selves, and write with their left hand. and as soon as people like you stop ostricizing trans people and invalidating their feelings, making them feel like they have no purpose in the world simply because they don't feel like what they were born as, the percentage of LGBTQ+ people is going to skyrocket, and then plateau. because once the LGBTQ+ community can start being themselves, and not have to worry about fucktards like you contributing to trans suicide and self-harm by constantly bashing them and telling them "sorry you had to castrate yourself to feel better," maybe it'll start being safer to come out as trans, just like it became safer to write with your left fucking hand.

[@HeatherBarks]

if that didn't answer your question, no, I don't believe whatever the fuck conspiracy theory you're trying to conjure up. I think you should stop worrying about little girls transitioning into little boys so much though. I know you're straight, and it just doesn't sit right how upset you seem to be at the fact that girls are transitioning into boys "too suddenly," "without your prior knowledge."

[@starlight4649]

THEY PUT UP SECURITY GUARDS To prevent what, 9-10 year olds from going to a different restroom? When I was a kid, our cheap ass backwoods school had 2 bathrooms. One on each side of the entire building, full of stalls and a couple sinks But they are now devoting actual worker hours to preventing 1 child from going where they feel comfortable.

[@GigiPicasso]

No they’re devoting security gaurds because a girl was raped in a school bathroom by a boy who claimed to be trans, put on a dress then went into the girls bathroom and raped her. Actual children have been hurt through all this bs because of all this & as a parent I wouldn’t want any children hurt at all so it’s about time they have security. It’s just unfortunate it took a girl being traumatized for life and raped for it to happen

[@troyterry6919]

But the point is the girls don't want a boy in their restroom. That is what you are missing.

[@CM-dh8py]

Right? They don't have money to feed kids who have no food, teachers have to buy classroom supplies with their own pocket money and the schoolboards are cramming 30+ kids in one class and yet they can afford some creepy dude who stands outside the washroom to serve as the Children's' Toilets Bouncer eight+ hours a day, five days a week? WTF?

[@troyterry6919]

That child is a boy and is being manipulated for who knows what reason. He is not able to understand what changing your gender is, not that that is a thing anyway.

[@williamslater-vf5ym]

I GUARANTEE there is not a security guard at a school whose only job is to guard the bathroom from Trans kids.

[@JennieFuchsia]

Just to be clear: it’s not easy to get a doctor to agree to remove your uterus if you’re a GROWN WOMAN

[@ijustamthem]

Ikr??

[@rcppcsk1589]

That was my first thought, too😫 even if it's a cis woman who wants to get a hysterectomy, she'll almost never get it if she doesn't have kids, and they'll always ask for a "husband's permission" which is so fucked up

[@youknowwho9247]

Why would a doctor do a dangerous procedure that's not curative or otherwise medically necessary?

[@domarigavjusmom]

Right? I'm done with mine. Had 6 kids and it's just causing me pain. Take it! Lol I'm still a woman before and after!

[@domarigavjusmom]

@@youknowwho9247 they don't

[@IceDragon289]

The whole "Kids will start identifying as cats!" tactic just smacks so much of the old "If we let gay people get married, they'll start marrying their dogs!" argument. Same shit, different day.

[@gueritopito]

History repeats itself.

[@xmlthegreat]

@@gueritopito history repeats itself cause motherfuckers don't listen!

[@anderslennartsson1828]

Not to be that guy but there are actually real cases where people identify as animals and even celestial bodies.The catchildren were made up but some of the stuff adults do right now is wild.

[@dinosaysrawr]

@@anderslennartsson1828 , sure, and even those people are deserving of basic dignity, courtesy, and civil rights. If someone introduces themselves with a particular name and pronouns, that's what you call them. It's also counterproductive and futile in most cases to argue with people about their identity or self-perception unless (and even when) you're their therapist or close loved one.

[@Dutch3DMaster]

@@anderslennartsson1828 OK, so I want to say that yes, some adults choose a life that is different to most of that of other adults. True, no one is arguing that. But that is not a case to drag into a discussion about trans rights when those rights are about elementary school pupils, because the level of dedication you are talking about is not seen in children AT ALL.

[@Remrie]

Hell, most adults between 18 and 30 can't get their tubes tied or a hysterectomy because "they're too young and might regret it"

[@xlegacyzero8878]

That is a terrible analogy, 18 to 30 year olds are ADULTS. and have most fully developed brains to make decisions and live with the consequences of those decisions.

[@beebuzz959]

I've heard of so many stories from women who doctors told them they couldn't without their husband's consent, or just they should wait.

[@beebuzz959]

@@xlegacyzero8878 The point is doctors don't perform these kinds of operations that easily.

[@halfwitedboy]

As it should be

[@abduljabars]

This is the wrong echo chamber to spew that "hate"

[@sheilamorris1423]

I passed a church yesterday with a marquee that read “God doesn’t have gender confusion.” Imagine being a young person on the LGBTQ+ spectrum, being raised in that church and having to see that sign. God isn’t judging gay and trans people; God will judge the “Christians” who preach hate and express mock concern.

[@cyclicozone2072]

Sounds like the church is doing a good job to prevent trans ideology from harming children

[@wilddeath1]

its particularly blasphemous when you consider god is both genders and also no genders.

[@cyclicozone2072]

Sounds like that church is protecting kids from trans ideology. Good for that church.

[@jonjonson-dd7gq]

That church is protecting kids from trans ideology

[@kreena1706]

Theres no hate like christian love

[@jamesclapp6832]

"I don't know, I'll be dead soon." An underused phrase.

[@djtundra8011]

Me in my mind my whole life lol 😂

[@berbudy]

adults do need to use this more often

[@GrahamChapman]

Conservatives need to get to that "soon" part SOONER rather than later.

[@speeklymaeve]

@@GrahamChapman well i mean i wouldnt go that far

[@GrahamChapman]

@@speeklymaeve **shrugs** The sooner ideologically evil people die, the less harm they can cause to the rest of us.

[@rankushrenada]

"Doc I need to cut my uterus" right, I've been trying to do that since I was 27, because I have endometreosys and I'm child free. Guess what the doctors, plural, told me. It ranged from, "you will regret it later sweetie" to "your husband will have to give your permision in the future" (which was, as you can imagine, a total lie) and ended in "It goes against my religious beliefs, I'm not doing it" and the classic "Close your legs if you don't want kids". I didn't care about the kids, I didn't want to have to rely on heavy pain medication every month to function, but yeah, it's really easy for a child to take their uterus out. I'm 40, still waiting for menopause or the money to get the procedure done elsewhere.

[@danielleberam8748]

Why not just go to a different state?

[@Nofilter1976]

What dr are you going to that said you must get permission from your husband?

[@dragonfox2.058]

@@Nofilter1976 some man obviously

[@dragonfox2.058]

same here. I'm glad now I didn't get it cause it woudl have thrown me, like these girls, into early menostop and that is no cake walk. finally they spayed me when I was 50. losing bone density estrogen provides is no joke

[@Sikyu-ye4ns]

what has to do with a mental disease of "being in the wrong body" being forced on minors ?

[@shermanculbertson6244]

The fact that John Oliver doesn’t have ads is something I will never be able to thank him enough for.

[@radioactivetrees9626]

With ads

[@spritemon98]

Huh your right

[@callamastia]

hbo dude

[@ZennExile]

Sherman, you my friend are very smartn't and appreciaten't your incredibly valuen't input.

[@Commander_Appo]

Oh hey I never noticed that

[@resveries_]

the regret rate for a knee replacement is higher than the regret rate for medical transition, but no one is trying to outlaw knee replacements…

[@jaybeebabee]

I am very curious to see the actual fact of a statistic claiming this fact. Or more likely, your comment is entirely made up.

[@pineapples8503]

@@jaybeebabee you're curious to see the actual statistics? the first results of a five second google search for 'surgery regret rates' already are multiple scientific studies talking about this exact thing. but you're not curious about anything really, are you? you're just trying to deny medical facts and portray those sharing them as liars because of your own extremely limited understanding of the world

[@peterstein2119]

@@jaybeebabee its on the ncbi site, i can't link things but the regret rate for knee surgery is ~18% according to the study done by 2020, compared to a study by the lancet in 2022 on trans kids following through to continue gender affirming care, the detransition rate there is less than 2%. i know you probably don't care and will probably just look the other way, but i do and i find it interesting.

[@jaybeebabee]

@@peterstein2119 you will be surprised that I do care, hence my comment on this. Why would I be concerned if I don’t care? Doesn’t make sense. Also surprising to you, I do believe your statistics. Totally. You know why? Because it includes only transpeople that have done their transition many years ago. Not the most recent ones. With the current trend in the past 3-5 years this topic sees on social media, it is a whole different picture. It now has become cool to transition. Let’s pull another statistic in 10 years that includes all the youngsters doing it today. Then we will see.

[@peterstein2119]

@@jaybeebabee the study was done in 2022, i don't know how much more recent you want it. because personally i like to let facts guide my life rather than weird, unfounded speculation.

[@unnoticed67]

"God does make mistakes and he looks like this!" I was 200% expecting them to post a picture of Ted Cruz. Surprised they didn't, but happy with the result all the same.

[@eljn0323]

I was also expecting to see Ted "pisses in his pants because he likes the warm feeling" Cruz as well

[@jamessferrenburg6513]

Wait...that wasn't Ted?

[@joejacko1587]

can we just come to a compromise rather than assigning locker rooms bathrooms and sports by gender or sex at birth lets separate them by dongs if you can hang dong you go to one everyone else the other

[@DaellusKnights]

That same thought was immediately screaming in my head the moment he started the bit... 😂😭🤣

[@debzacher1332]

EXACTLY!!! 😂😂😂

[@MeBeCreepy]

“I do not want to spend my free time to ask adults to make good choices” love her

[@dinosaysrawr]

I felt that in my soul, because that's part of my actual job that gets very tiresome. :D

[@Nunyabizy123]

Like that kid would know better anyway.

[@dinosaysrawr]

@@Nunyabizy123 , I mean, would you to just defer to adults if they invalidated something you genuinely loved or sincerely hated, or told you that you didn't feel the way you felt?

[@Safe-and-effective]

She's as convincing as Soros-backed Thunberg.

[@neuuser7071]

@@dinosaysrawr it doesn’t matter how you feel if your feelings aren’t based in reality.

[@lordhank77]

Since John vaguely asked, bearded dragons are omnivores. They eat a mix of vegetables (including leaf shoots and flowers), protein sources such as bugs, and the occasional bit of fruit.

[@SoraQuill]

I've seen mostly crickets in my experience with one, just to add to this. It was a school pet, got to hold him once~ And I always watched him eat. He was a good lizzo.

[@oliverer3]

I appreciate this greatly. ❤

[@krill87]

hey aussie here, ive seen a couple wild ones eating a bird so can confirm they eat meat.

[@JanCarol11]

@@krill87 Yep! The younger they are, the more protein they eat, but as they age they prefer fruits & veg. They love pet mince (but - not too much, because they need the exoskeleton of insects for nutrition).

[@queenofidlis]

​@@oliverer3same. I am happy to learn about them. ❤

[@Miktase]

My intended dissertation for my health care ethics PhD is on gender-affirming care and transgender rights. All the anti-trans legislation is unethical and illegal

[@ProkofNY]

Any comments on _Research into trans medicine has been manipulated-Court documents offer a window into how this happens_ published in The Economist Jun 27th?

[@babs_babs]

@@ProkofNYit’s a pay to read article that gives way too much credibility to cass. her report isn’t going to hold up to scrutiny, she’s more a political actor than an honest scientist.

[@ProkofNY]

@@babs_babs The article mentions Cass in the first sentence but make no mistake, it is not about Cass but about the WPATH. According to the article: _Court documents recently released as part of the discovery process in a case involving youth gender medicine in Alabama reveal that wpath’s claim was built on shaky foundations. The documents show that the organisation’s leaders interfered with the production of systematic reviews that it had commissioned from the Johns Hopkins University Evidence-Based Practice Centre (epc) in 2018._ _From early on in the contract negotiations, wpath expressed a desire to control the results of the Hopkins team’s work. In December 2017, for example, Donna Kelly, an executive director at wpath, told Karen Robinson, the epc’s director, that the wpath board felt the epc researchers “cannot publish their findings independently”. A couple of weeks later, Ms Kelly emphasised that, “the [wpath] board wants it to be clear that the data cannot be used without wpath approval”._ _Ms Robinson saw this as an attempt to exert undue influence over what was supposed to be an independent process. John Ioannidis of Stanford University, who co-authored guidelines for systematic reviews, says that if sponsors interfere or are allowed to veto results, this can lead to either biased summaries or suppression of unfavourable evidence. Ms Robinson sought to avoid such an outcome. “In general, my understanding is that the university will not sign off on a contract that allows a sponsor to stop an academic publication,” she wrote to Ms Kelly._ _Months later, with the issue still apparently unresolved, Ms Robinson adopted a sterner tone. She noted in an email in March 2018 that, “Hopkins as an academic institution, and I as a faculty member therein, will not sign something that limits academic freedom in this manner,” nor “language that goes against current standards in systematic reviews and in guideline development”._

[@ProkofNY]

@@babs_babs There’s more: _Eventually wpath relented, and in May 2018 Ms Robinson signed a contract granting wpath power to review and offer feedback on her team’s work, but not to meddle in any substantive way. After wpath leaders saw two manuscripts submitted for review in July 2020, however, the parties’ disagreements flared up again. In August the wpath executive committee wrote to Ms Robinson that wpath had “many concerns” about these papers, and that it was implementing a new policy in which wpath would have authority to influence the epc team’s output-including the power to nip papers in the bud on the basis of their conclusions._ _Ms Robinson protested that the new policy did not reflect the contract she had signed and violated basic principles of unfettered scientific inquiry she had emphasised repeatedly in her dealings with wpath. The Hopkins team published only one paper after wpath implemented its new policy: a 2021 meta-analysis on the effects of hormone therapy on transgender people. Among the recently released court documents is a wpath checklist confirming that an individual from wpath was involved “in the design, drafting of the article and final approval of [that] article”. (The article itself explicitly claims the opposite.) Now, more than six years after signing the agreement, the epc team does not appear to have published anything else, despite having provided wpath with the material for six systematic reviews, according to the documents._ _Another document recently unsealed shows that Rachel Levine, a transwoman who is assistant secretary for health, succeeded in pressing wpath to remove minimum ages for the treatment of children from its 2022 standards of care. Dr Levine’s office has not commented. Questions remain unanswered, but none of this helps wpath’s claim to be an organisation that bases its recommendations on science._ _No one at wpath or Johns Hopkins has responded to multiple inquiries, so there are still gaps in this timeline. But an email in October 2020 from wpath figures, including its incoming president at the time, Walter Bouman, to the working group on guidelines, made clear what sort of science wpath did (and did not) want published. Research must be “thoroughly scrutinised and reviewed to ensure that publication does not negatively affect the provision of transgender health care in the broadest sense,” it stated. Mr Bouman and one other coauthor of that email have been named to a World Health Organisation advisory board tasked with developing best practices for transgender medicine._ This is the end of the article.

[@ProkofNY]

@@babs_babs Sorry, but who was the policial actor to be held up to scrutiny?

[@jesseharrold1812]

Fun fact: it's shown in the comics that Pigpen leaves his home every morning all clean and proper, but the moment he steps outside he becomes a dust magnet.

[@julesk1567]

it‘s not you, pigpen. it‘s the world. 😂 kinda apt, considering the topic and trans people getting all kinds of discriminatory, dehumanizing, prejudicial, ignorant crap flung their way… 😢

[@whintee]

it's me. i was Pigpen. sometimes i still am Pigpen.

[@Odinsday]

A true king

[@Qwert_Zuiop]

Thanks for that fact, somehow glad to know that 😅

[@elizabethwarman9028]

Me when I was a little girl.

[@quantumslasher]

Re: the uterus thing... doctors are still telling people "I can't do that, your future husband might want kids," "You might change your mind later," and of course the even more condescending "I don't think you want to do that."

[@jazzakai2000]

In my state, you can't get get it done till you are 30 even if you already have childern

[@NikomaGrob]

@@jazzakai2000 Good.

[@magicrainbowkitties1023]

Plus a fact, someone might not want to have their uterus because it *quite literally causes them horrible pain* (cough cough me with PCOS), completely aside from gender shit or wanting kids

[@DelphiaStrickland]

Took me 20 yrs to get one, even with endometriosis, a twisted fallopian tube, and chronic ovarian cyst ruptures. All because doctors couldn't possibly imagine I absolutely DID NOT want kids.

[@ButterflyBoiHarmon]

@@NikomaGrob How?

[@whyhatestrangers]

Are we just going to gloss over the fact that Pigpen blinked for help and John just moved on without helping him?

[@eldorados_lost_searcher]

Apparently. Poor kid.

[@LRM12o8]

I didn't even know he could blink... 😅

[@foo219]

We don't know what happened behind the scenes. Child abuse situations are very delicate after all. A rash, impulsive action might do long term harm.

[@Rachel_2112]

???

[@justinhamilton8647]

canceling him right now

[@cryptidkoi8418]

Fun fact : There is nothing stopping a person from going into the wrong restroom just because, cisgender or not.

[@egetty6852]

At concerts I (cisgender female) go to the mens restroom because the line is always shorter 😂

[@ryaneaston3487]

@@egetty6852 Considering that urinals exist in mens restrooms and that they're the most used things in there, I would expect the line to be short. Usually, it's only men that are shy about their genitals (or transgender men, whichever of the two) that go into the stalls to take a piss. If it's a piss (it usually is), we are in and out, since the urnials are the fastest to use. btw, I'm a cis man, but at the very least, I'm an ally. Still working out if I'm aroace or not.

[@casperlee4079]

I mean, there is a door. Sometimes I'm too weak to open it :(

[@libsyates2426]

I have done that before by accident. I forgot to look at the sign and just remembered that the correct one was usually on the left. I was wrong.

[@Overseer2579]

Have fun trying to convince Republicans of that

[@SadisticSenpai61]

"I want you to cut my uterus out. That doctor would say you're a brave, wonderful person. You're so right." Um, what? As a 36 yr old AFAB Enby who wants to get a hysterectomy, I can personally testify that no, that wouldn't happen. FFS, my state only just repealed the law that mandated my spouse give written permission for me to get a hysterectomy just _last year!_ There's still several states in the US where that's still the law, BTW. And if you don't have a spouse? Can't get one.

[@FlawlessP401]

No one is assigned anything at birth. Observed your sex is OBSERVED at birth not assigned. Every single thing you people believe about gender or sex is actively society retarding nonsense. Enby isn't even real it's just you trying to turn your personality into a gender category

[@jg2783]

You're kidding? Spousal "permission"? FFS

[@pcphantom1978]

This is very subjective based on where you live. Here in California, it depends on the reason. If it's part of gender affirming care, you can get it done fast, free, and no questions asked. I'm not giving "medical advice", I'm just saying, if I was a woman in a state like California or New York, and I wanted a hysterectomy, I would probably try to take that route if I had trouble elsewhere.

[@sammiehopkins9408]

Okay okay okay, hear me out.. Marry your best male friend (does gender matter? Unclear) Get "Permission" (🤢🤢) to get a hysterectomy Get hysterectomy Divorce What're they gonna do, put it back?? I don't think so /j obviously, but Jesus, man

[@parencolonthree]

@@FlawlessP401 Did you even watch the video?

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Bearded dragon owner here. I have one named Frank after my favorite architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Bearded dragons are omnivores. I typically feed him crickets and mealworms for meat, lettuce and kale for hydration and greens, and blueberries and strawberries. I especially love it when he eats blueberries because it looks like he's wearing lipstick. When he's not chilling on his hammock in his enclosure, I let him climb onto me and up to my shoulders. When it's hot out, I bring another enclosure and take him outside. I let him explore the grass (though he doesn't exactly move much), and when he's done, I place in a different enclosure so he doesn't move anywhere. His indoor enclosure is right next to a window and he loves to birdwatch from his hammock.

[@xzonia1]

Thank you! This is the post I was looking for (what DO they eat?) Lol. :)

[@lauraguglielmo]

Interesting insight into bearded dragon lore

[@richardleeskinneriii9640]

Hell yeah, Frank Lloyd Wright was the shit. Pioneered the use of rubble trench foundations for houses, which is cheaper and uses less concrete. That kicks ass.

[@Dan-xn8by]

Does your bearded dragon have a sex cult like the real Frank Lloyd wright did?

[@lizardlegend42]

Bearded Dragon gang unite! Mine's called Ben because 10 year old me was mildly obsessed with awful puns 😅 (Be)arded Drago(n) He's getting old now, will be turning 9 in December. Stopped eating crickets ages ago and is now exclusively on morios and salad. Still surprisingly active though!

[@chadmiettunen]

I half expected the episode to end with a Kai getting a surprise visit from Dolly Parton.

[@JxCru]

the happy ending we all wanted

[@johannakalytera9574]

I did too !!

[@jeremywarren7424]

How does one "half-expect" something?

[@Backwardspajamas44]

@@jeremywarren7424 half expect: Almost to expect; to think that something may happen, without being entirely sure.

[@jeremywarren7424]

@@Backwardspajamas44 I apologize, my comment was a rhetorical question/quote from the character Peter Griffin in the show Family Guy. I should have contextualized the quote better.

[@Derglesnaf]

“Yeah we have a litter box in the class, it’s for our class pet Mittsey the cat!” Like bruh if there was a litter box in a school that’s what it’s for 😂😂

[@charlespacholski397]

Yall missed a golden opportunity to throw a pic of mitch McConnell in with the reel of goblin sharks

[@JaronLindow]

He's a goblin turtle, though; not a goblin shark.

[@TheRealEvilkitten3]

don't disrespect goblin sharks like that

[@WKaliberr]

or Hunter Biden

[@seza5500]

Wait, there wasn‘t?

[@nlpnt]

I thought it was a setup for another Trd Cruz joke.

[@lazerith84]

My girlfriend had endometriosis so badly that is made the walls of her uterus look like they had been peppered with bird shot and still all 6 doctors she went to tried to encourage her to keep her uterus until she had at least 1 child … there is no way a doctor of any kind is just giving a young person a hysterectomy.

[@aeolian951]

That's fucking absurd. I'm sorry that you had to deal with those people.

[@lazerith84]

@@aeolian951 I appreciate it - she needed a lot of support - but we made it through. She is pain free now and we are back to living our life. Hope these kids can say the same someday soon.

[@user-ui2db4nc8r]

The lack of accessible healthcare for women is the example that made that dumb guy sound so utterly absurd! He's got a case of the dumb

[@82abhilash]

OK, which hospitals did she go to were the doctors rejected to treat her?

[@artemisjade]

@@82abhilash you are not entitled to anyone else's medical information. Piss off

[@videocliplover]

The same “increase” is with women now able to get mental health diagnoses that were overlooked due to confirmation bias of the DSM-4 and little girls able to finally get correct diagnoses that will help them live better and easier lives overall. It’s not the case that all women are suddenly now autistic or have ADHD. It will level out someday too!

[@DrachenGothik666]

I remember being considered a super-rare case of ADHD as a little girl, when I was diagnosed, back in the 70's because it was considered a "boys" disease!

[@ccdanro]

You can't be more wrong than that, everything in all those DSMs are fake, fabricated imaginary "mental illnesses" - everything in psychiatry is pseudoscientific fraud!

[@yay-depression]

reminds me of the graph that showed left-handedness in america. suddenly so many people seemed to be left-handed except it wasn’t sudden they just weren’t being punished for it anymore

[@ProkofNY]

A 4000% increase as what happened in the Tavistock’s GIDS? Really? I get it that numbers can increase due to factors such as greater awareness and a change in diagnostic criteria, but given this sharp increase you are not at least a bit curious to know if there is more going on here?

[@HOOTwheelz]

@@ProkofNY yeah, i was curious. but then i remembered other people's medical decisions are none of my fucking business. watch the video again, or be quiet and keep it to yourself. none of this is your damn business.

[@renaissancenerd3801]

just wanted to take a moment to applaud John and his show's improvements in discussing this topic. last time they talked about trans people, it was basically all about bathrooms and genitalia and very little of anything else, and this time it was so much more complex and in depth to a point where even I, a terminally online trans person, didn't know everything. this is amazingly impressive

[@nikobellic570]

I'm a terminally online gender critical person 😊

[@renaissancenerd3801]

@@nikobellic570 ???

[@DIYHRTlover]

@@nikobellic570 that's the most depressing existence i've ever heard of

[@overgrownkudzu]

@@nikobellic570 imagine admitting this

[@TellyKNetic]

That one man thinks someone can just walk into a doctor's office and have their uterus removed? Do you know how much of an uphill climb it is just for women to get their tubes tied? "You should have at least one child first." "What if your husband wants children?" "You might change your mind." Even if you have uterine cancer, they won't remove it except as a last resort.

[@shlatekkin]

I was thinking the same thing..about 17 years ago my cousin was refused to be allowed hers tied because she was under 25. Nevermind that her 25th birthday was in a month, or that she just gave birth to her 4th child. She ended up having a 5th child and told the Dr if they didn't do it this time, she was going to do it herself.

[@onbearfeet]

I'm expecting to need a hysterectomy in a few years due to a medical condition I inherited from my mom. That condition nearly killed her when I was a toddler. I'm strategizing to get the surgery now because unlike her, I don't have three kids...which means a lot of doctors flat-out refuse to do it because it would "destroy your ability to bear children." After all, what if I someday marry a man who wants kids? Never mind that I prefer to date women and that childbirth would most likely kill me for unrelated medical reasons. Gotta keep that hypothetical man's options open!

[@SheliakDragon]

I *just* posted a similar comment to this effect. Didn't see yours or I would have replied here instead. I need to go through IVF just to have the smallest chance at having children, my endometriosis hurts me basically every day, what I have doesn't work anyway can't I just get rid of it? Ugh.

[@PerspectiveEngineer]

Thats sad. One little planet we all share, And we can't all be free. It's past time we kill all our gods.

[@diane8996]

Yup. My mom went in multiple times to have hers removed because she kept getting extremely painful cysts. Our "Christian" doctor wouldn't let her. Oh, gee, look at that, one of the cysts turned cancerous and she had to go through chemo and everything. Which now they're thinking it may have led to her developing the pancreatic cancer that killed her. But yeah, sure, I can just walk into a doctor's office and get sex reassignment surgery anytime I want. Oh wait, I'm watching all of my trans friends getting pushed aside over, and over, and over, and over again.

[@hunnybadger442]

John you really need to talk about disability rights... it's become impossible for us to vote in some states, cops kill us at ridiculous rates, inflation is literally killing us... No one has even said anything... We're voiceless and dying and we need help...

[@WalterTheWalrus]

Ah glorious America, if you don’t have a camera pointed at you, your screwed.

[@trashcatlinol]

Second this!

[@UltimatePerfection]

You are already privileged under ADA, what more do you want?

[@ButterflyBoiHarmon]

@@WalterTheWalrus That statement of yours is so accurate, it hurts.

[@hunnybadger442]

@@WalterTheWalrus welcome to you're fucked...

[@sharazar]

I understand the left handed study. When I was a kid my teacher keep telling me to write with my right hand and even threatened detention for not. I was actually ambidextrous and would change hands if one got tired. and could write just as well with either. But after the teacher was bully me to us my right hand I stopped using it for writing and just used my left hand, to spite her.

[@moniqueengleman873]

Same here. My mother came to my class in first grade because my teacher tied my left hand behind my back so I wouldn't use it.

[@gilliganmcneuter4550]

Why the hell do people get educated to take such a notoriously poorly paid job if they don't even like kids?! Fuck those so-called "educators"

[@ochomunna270]

I was naturally left handed as a kid, but my parents and teachers forced me to use my right hand with continuous beatings and threats. Now as an adult I do most things from the left including sports, but write with my right hand albeit it looking terrible. I never understood the emphasis on the right especially when I knew it boiled down mostly to superstition. So disappointed!

[@theBear89451]

This is a bad analogy. There was not a social media dopamine boost with left handedness. The trans plateau will be lower than the peak.

[@kitty_foreststreamvods4116]

@@ochomunna270 its mainly because writing with your left hand causes you to smudge the pencil marks but thats not even that bad of a thing... yeah the paper looks dirty after that... so what?

[@nicklikesmilk]

The mom saying “fuck you” at 18:50 just warms my heart

[@jerryhorfe-mf1ls]

Why?

[@anthonykerr6160]

I can respect some solid mama bear behavior. I would have done the same.

[@jerryhorfe-mf1ls]

@@anthonykerr6160 was she trying to trans her kid?

[@hitthegoat]

@@jerryhorfe-mf1lsshe was succeeding in loving her kid

[@kozmosis3486]

Are you trying to string words together into a coherent thought? Try harder.@@jerryhorfe-mf1ls

[@thechestrockfield]

How the F did this episode not end with Kai meeting Dolly?!?

[@wolframstahl1263]

We'll see that in Part III. I can't imagine this being out in the world and Dolly not reacting.

[@Call-me-Al]

She may have been too busy or sick at the time (she's unfortunately really old, I am unhappy about having to spend a large chunk of my life post-Dolly Parton too soon, same as that this whole post-Robin Williams thing is bogus except it will be far worse after Parton because of how much important work she constantly does): she isn't the kind of person to skip on something like this if it was possible. It is likely to happen in the future.

[@Glaaki13]

@@wolframstahl1263 True Dolly seems like a woman that would support this young girl

[@moscheto]

That was in my mind too

[@SuperTonyony]

When Dolly finds out, she'll bring this little gal to Dollywood and spend the day with her.

[@MacNCheeseUnicorn]

"If the child has to be an activist, we have already failed that child." Love this line

[@Safe-and-effective]

Greta Thunberg is a UN puppet. Her parents definitely failed her.

[@QuasiMaven]

Then tell the adults in the room to stop pushing them to do it. You can’t put children in these positions, then complain about it. The left and right both always do this. It’s so fucking disingenuous

[@gc9529]

I keep thinking of Greta Thunberg. And yes, we've failed the kids on climate change, too!

[@Safe-and-effective]

@@gc9529 "WE"...sorry, but they're not your kids to fail, buddy. Unless you are living in a socialist utopia, you have no business "living up" to other people's children, you weirdo. Last I checked "WE" weren't the ones pimping her out for the NWO. So, take a breather and hands off other people's children.

[@Safe-and-effective]

"If the child commits suicide because you encouraged life-changing decisions that they grew up to regret, you have already failed that child" said no tRaNsRiGhts activists ever. Deceit and emotional manipulation are their ONLY argument. Disgusting, manipulative groomers.

[@iflifewaseasy]

Thank you for this piece! I transitioned at 50. I was exhausted from the negativity of the lie and the unhappiness of living a life I didn't recognize. My whole life, I just thought I was wrong or a mistake. My wife gifted me the support to transition and now I want to live and everyday, I get to see myself in the mirror and smile. 🥰

[@MichaelDeGar]

Congrats! I hope you have a dope life!

[@NikkiLuv618]

Awww that’s so so so sweet

[@nikobellic570]

Live however you want but stay out of female spaces designed for females not males

[@adeadphish7931]

In the wake of Nex Benedict's murder in Oklahoma and the escalating tide of hatred against the trans and NB community, I am kind of hoping we get a part 3 to show that things have not only not improved, but could get exponentially worse with the coming election

[@cyclicozone2072]

Trump 2024 ✌️

[@lugyd1xdone195]

He did talk about this for a while in the Trump video. As a transgirl myself (probably) I dont live in the US but I'm scared to my bones about what the world is becomming. At this point it's hard to even think of a place where to emigrate should things get even worse. Project 2025 sounds like a real nightmare.

[@flappletarts]

I am a left-handed person. My kindergarten teacher would force me to use my right hand with pretty much anything that required one-handedness. She would take pencils and other things out of my left hand and put them into my right. My mother bought me a pair of left-handed scissors and this teacher would make me use them with my right hand, effectively rendering them useless. Then this teacher had the gall to say that my motor-skills weren’t developed correctly because I can’t cut construction paper in a straight line, and that I should repeat kindergarten. Edit: Don’t read the comments in this thread. You’ll lose braincells.

[@LRM12o8]

First was the culture war on black people, then on the disabled, then on the left-handed, then on gays, now on trans* Why can't society just understand that *no* minority deserves to be discriminated for who they are? Why does the realization always only come one minority at a time? Why was the same conclusion never immediately applied to all other minorities? Is mankind really that dense? 😪

[@MordeKa0s]

@@LRM12o8 I really believe it's a miracle we as a species still exist. Sometimes it feels there are enough of us trying to ensure we don't to the point the rest of us are just screwed.

[@rdug2165]

Fellow left hander here, and while I sympathize, this is not the same thing as giving drugs to a child to prevent the natural onset of puberty.

[@laurendoe168]

@@LRM12o8 Not to mention that every step forward seems to be two steps back.

[@debshaw680]

Same here. We were lucky we had support from our parents. My grandfather, on the other hand, called me a barbarian and wouldn’t let me eat at the table on visits.

[@Lindsaybkk]

"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong". - Thomas Sowell

[@donmiller2908]

@Real Aiglon - There is nothing wrong with using quotes. You can go to Barnes & Noble and buy books full of them because they're useful . Sometimes someone that has actually experienced what they're talking about or has a gift for language can say it much better than you can. Something that is well said has more force and people tend to remember it longer.

[@Red-zh7vq]

So we should definitely let the people with schizophrenia make all of their own decisions

[@frocco7125]

Thomas Sowell was a conservative, so it's very funny this quote can come back to bite them.

[@LRM12o8]

@@frocco7125 well, Kant was also a racist and antisemite, despite having created/popularized the most reliable and universally relatable moral principle. Just because someone said something smart once, doesn't mean they themselves always their own words. And vice versa, it doesn't make their smart words any less smart either.

[@Styphon]

@Real Aiglon I could say that, or just provide the same quote from a known and respected person. Which carries more weight? We're still quoting ancient Greeks. Do you think that's bad too?

[@cagolan]

"If a child has to be an activist, we have already failed that child" Powerful and accurate sentence.

[@Red-zh7vq]

They’re being indoctrinated

[@Frommerman]

Similarly, "Healthcare is an admission of failure" is one of my favorites. It's true because the vast majority of major health problems you see, things like diabetes, obesity, many different types of cancer, all car and workplace accidents, etc, are entirely caused by environmental factors. People won't be diabetic or fat if they have access to the kinds of foods which don't slowly poison them, lung cancer exists largely because the CEOs of coal and tobacco companies are living in mansions instead of dying in ditches, car accidents happen because GM was allowed to buy and trash all of our mass transit in the 20s, and work accidents happen because the employees have forgotten the power of the picket line. All of these are problems which could be solved, and if you did, none of those people would need healthcare. Therefore, when someone is rushed into the emergecy room, it's because society failed all of us a long time ago.

[@js2010ish]

"They are creating a world for themselves that is so healthy" 10:12, I *love* this Freudian slip that reveals the utopian goals kids have at heart

[@foo219]

Yeah, that is probably the most poignant thing - out of many poignant things - said in this episode. If a child has to be anything but a child, we've failed.

[@wolftitanreading5308]

If you want to cut body parts off the child because they asked you failed that child

[@Sajun777]

"What do you want to say to these legislators?" I love her answer.

[@MarioLuigi-js4vk]

The little boys answer?

[@skye2281]

Umm, she’s a he, so there’s that.

[@rs72098]

She sounded like a psychopath.

[@skye2281]

@@rs72098 She’s a he, so…

[@artificialdevil7828]

That clip where the boy felt good being called "sir". I felt that. The first person to ever refer to me as a man without being told to was an elderly man in a nursing home who had dementia, but it was the single most euphoric moment I have ever experienced.

[@an_rosban]

It was like that for me too, I was working at a hospital and a visitor behind me called me "sir" and that's when I knew how happy transitioning was going to make me, and that I wasn't wrong about being trans.

[@MujahidAbdulla]

@@an_rosban lol

[@GeronimoPlaz]

@@an_rosban So the only people who think you're correct are old people with dementia? Doesn't that tell you something? Your feelings don't determine your gender. Stop sexually confusing children. This is just ridiculous. Things you can't change: your species, your biological parents, your date of birth, and your gender.

[@an_rosban]

​@@GeronimoPlaz The man I referred to was a completely neurotypical man visiting a relative in the hospital, as far as I could tell. I've had many many more people tell me they'd always thought of me as masculine as well. I've never spoken to any child about gender because I don't have a reason to interact with children. I'm sorry to contradict your bizarre fantasies. I've felt this ever since I was 5 years old and finally being allowed to live as myself has made my life and attitude so much better. I'm sorry you can't understand, but having the support and freedom to be who I am has helped me learn so much. I hope you'll have the opportunity to expand your knowledge someday as well.

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

The first time I went out dressed as myself, a creepy guy in a shop insisted on kissing my hand and telling me how beautiful I was, and only seemed to get _more_ creepily intrigued by me when my girlfriend came over and introduced herself. Looking back that’s probably about 35 giant red flags, and I probably should’ve been getting out of there even quicker 😂 but the affirmation and acceptance felt absolutely _wonderful._

[@TARINunit9]

You know it's going to be a good episode when we get another Ted Cruz poem 90 seconds in

[@manuel0578]

We love Ted Cruz.

[@JamesCarter-px9ho]

😊 😊

[@rockdinosaur8619]

@@manuel0578 That is extremely difficult to believe - I doubt his family even loves that weird troll.

[@27TacitusKilgore]

The ted cruise poem was the highlight of this clip. Ted cruise reflects badly on the population that elected him to represent them. So, the people of texas look as stupid as ted.

[@scottcarlass8887]

I'm surprised they didn't mention Ted Cruz as one of God's mistakes.

[@vivianm1851]

That dude saying "That's fuckin dope" legit made me tear up. He shouldn't have ever had to wait that long.

[@andrefricke9998]

Feeling you!

[@valenti_no]

I absolutely loved that John brought up trans joy. It seems that all you hear about is trans pain, and it's so nice to hear from someone who isn't trans talk about how important it is to remain hopeful, despite the current situation.

[@ProkofNY]

He is sticking to an activist-approved script.

[@Darkhelmet56]

@@ProkofNY he actually cares about trans people unlike you

[@ProkofNY]

@@Darkhelmet56 yet, it appears as if activist groups have lost sight of objectivity and the truth to the degree that their narrative on GAC now contradicts the most empirical studies available. I wouldn’t count on them to procure the well-being of the population that has most at stake when it comes to this debate.

[@Darkhelmet56]

@@ProkofNY you are the one who doesn’t care about trans people’s health since you are very biased against trans people

[@ProkofNY]

@@Darkhelmet56provide any evidence for this.

[@Xadov]

When he was talking about goblin sharks I thought he was actually talking about Ted Cruz again

[@lifelover69]

what's the difference😏

[@philagon]

No, he was clearly referring to transitioners.

[@Dreigonix]

_Felito_ Cruz. Remember, we are committed to always deadnaming him. >.>

[@shangobunni5]

Excuse me, but you owe a big apology to goblin sharks.

[@shangobunni5]

Kristi Noem leads a state that has a smaller population than the city I live in. She is irrelevant and should be ignored.

[@bryb2644]

I am American and have lived in Germany for decades. Watching the primary commercials over the summer was some of the strangest shit I have ever seen in my life.

[@KingLarbear]

America is going crazy

[@nolongerblocked6210]

Don't come home, it'll only make u more sad... modern conservatives have lost their freaking minds

[@jonsmith7659]

Buckle up. It’s probably gonna get worse.

[@cyan_oxy6734]

As a German living in Germany I can only agree. US politics seems to be a wacky parody in comparison to here and we're far from perfect...

[@infoscrolls]

@@nolongerblocked6210 look in the mirror. You are not immune to the propaganda.

[@crashcoptr]

Regarding that one young girl towards the start of the piece, she's probably the only trans kid in her school. Those security guards were put up specifically to spite her, a literal child. That's ghoulish and inhumane how they treat her. It's genuinely fucked up...

[@js2010ish]

Odds are about 1/30 a kid is trans gnc or intersex...sadly she's likely just the only 'out' or visible student 🤒 I remember the one visible/vocal trans boy at my middle school and hey I turned out trans too...after hiding it decades from seeing the bullying and mockery and homophobia he received

[@recitationtohear]

Link to the clip : when i met john Oliver *kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3TJipxta5hnqLc*

[@Shuizid]

I wonder how long it takes until we discover one of those security guards harassed a child. John already had an episode about police in schools and how it managed to make everything worse. But ofcourse we talk about "conservatives" - folks who love violence and hate any kind of fun that (except more violence). People who openly cheer for "kiss my ass" and then complaint that discourse is becoming more hostile.

[@maxwellsdemon10]

@@js2010ish 1/30?!?! Thats absurdly high, how do you arrive at that number? I can only imagine that you would have to expand the definition in a way, that CIS women, who have genetic dispositions are counted as well. I have never seen any study that comes to a percentage of more than 1% (mostly 0.3-0.9%) for intersex and trans people, let alone over 3%. Don't get me wrong, the guards are fucked up, but I highly doubt that there is another trans person in that school, let alone one that identifies that at such a young age.

[@ellomirza]

It’s genuinely fucked up ghoulish and inhumane to cut up children and inject them with hormones.

[@TheHedgehogGiraffe]

9:45 When I came out in 2014 at the age of 14, my mom thought that I was coming out because my best friend at the time was also trans. This idea is not new. I’m 23 now and still trans. This is not a “contagion.” This is not a “fad.” This is our lives.

[@kimmie411]

I'm sure your experience is correct from your perspective. However what concerns me as a Mum. when teachers are telling kids in school to let them know what pronouns they prefer, asking if they are a boy or girl when its pretty clear who is a boy and a girl... that is creating a contagion.

[@notelggiW]

​@@kimmie411Knowing about pronouns isn't a social contagion any more than knowledge in general is a social contagion. And the idea that it's "clear who's a boy and a girl" is what contributes to dysphoria, when people assume who/what you are and treat you "accordingly". Nobody can turn your child trans, I assure you.

[@kimmie411]

@@notelggiW why does it contribute to gender disphoria? We should assume everyone is not a boy or girl? Just neutral? It's not what mother nature intended. I feel for those who experience disphoria I really do and they should absolutely be included and supported but we don't need to change everything about our society for a tiny minority.

[@notelggiW]

@@kimmie411 When someone is called a "she" when that someone is a "he", that makes them feel dysphoric. People use the wrong pronouns because they assume. It's human nature to make quick judgements, assumptions, and use stereotypes as a shortcut for understanding things, and I don't blame people for that. But that doesn't mean we can't change. And it's not like we'll be changing all of humanity to just have people be more thoughtful about something as simple as pronouns. There have been and still are societies which recognize more than 2 genders, there are multiple languages that accommodate different genders, and if we look back in time we can see how language has changed and evolved along with our culture. I hear people used to be against the plural "you" back in the thee/thou days! Sorry for talking for so long, I'm just trying to be as thorough as possible. Long story short, society grows and changes, though it may be scary, it's also good. And very natural.

[@kimmie411]

@@notelggiW you have strong beliefs but then I disagree with you. I feel dysphoria when I'm called a "chest feeder" for example. What am I some genderless thing? No I'm a mother who breastfeeds but don't call me that on the off chance I accidentally identify as a guy. What about my rights and feelings about this? Mother nature always wins she will ultimately determine the outcome at the end of the day. Wait is it even "mother nature now" is if offensive too? "person nature" ?

[@heat420_7]

The litter box stuff would be a lot funnier if I hadn't recently read about litter buckets in Colorado schools as makeshift toilets for active shooter situations...

[@bennettcawley4630]

Damn. Darkside.

[@Astro_Error]

I’m pretty sure that’s where the rumor started. And then conservatives had to turn it into anti trans rhetoric

[@superbmediacontentcreator]

Yes but I have not actually seen this validated by a reputable source just anecdotally referenced. Tell me the name and location of an actual school doing this?

[@Malcadon]

Schools usually keep cat-litter in utility closets as it great at cleaning up puke and blood.

[@bookbook9495]

@@superbmediacontentcreator there were people talking about the litter they keep for school shooter situations in case students need to pee or poop, and then the context was edited into “kids use the litter box, it’s insane”

[@grayson3802]

I'm trans so I just want to say thanks to John for not only acknowledging what's going on, but making sure this wasn't just an exhibition of trans trauma. I was laughing while watching this, and that's often hard to do while listening to news about anti-trans laws.

[@riparianlife97701]

I don't need to know what sex you were, are, or have. If you feel most comfortable in the bathroom I use, just wash your hands, please.

[@Esrou]

For real, I debated watching this because I knew that it was real personal and didn’t want to get hurt hearing all the shit people are doing to hurt us.

[@johnjames502]

Lol, "trans trauma".

[@acdcfan014]

@@johnjames502 what's funny?

[@johnjames502]

@@acdcfan014 The delusional world you weirdos have created.

[@ttthecat]

Where are these surgeons who will sterilize you at the drop of a hat? My best friend was trying to get her tubes tied, She'd already had one child, she was married and did not want to have more children and her doctor REFUSED to give her the tubal litigation she requested because "she might want more kids." My friends was 28 at the time. 🤭 Grown enough to have children but not grown enough to say no more kids?Where are these eager surgeons that will cut you at a moment's notice?👀

[@clairehann2681]

They work in gender focused hospitals

[@demitasse22]

Lol yeah. Not even mentioned

[@Henrik_Holst]

you see they are currently living rent free in the minds of conservatives so that is why we never see them out in the real world 🙂

[@handsomejonni]

Yeah, I was really expecting this to be mentioned

[@sav6057]

this was my exact thought. I've heard countless stories of cis women trying to get their tubes tied who have been told things like they're too young, what would your husband think, you might change your mind, etc. So a doctor doing a surgery for a trans kid without any further discussion is completely unrealistic and absurd.

[@dfs-comedy]

Oh come on, John! I'm a transgender woman, 5'2" tall, and I *specifically* transitioned to DOMINATE women's basketball! But more seriously, the GOP hate-on for trans people is really scary. I'm glad I live in Canada where we don't have quite the level of anti-trans moral panic as the USA or the UK. I get to live my joy.

[@thisissuperboss]

@@trevorchester4439 you used so many pronouns in your comment

[@trevorchester4439]

@@thisissuperboss So? Gaslight harder, bigot

[@thisissuperboss]

@@trevorchester4439 you were making fun of pronouns well you were using them a lot

[@its.evviii]

@@thisissuperboss you were at least gramatically correct in your initial comment, this one dosen't make any sense

[@thisissuperboss]

@@its.evviii I was saying he was making fun of pronouns well he was using a lot of pronouns in his comment

[@geeknotgamer1985]

My partner is going through a rough situation and was talking to his mom today. We were on a call because he wanted to bounce messages off of me so he doesn't get disowned by his mom too, but in one of his mom's messages, she referred to him as her son. That was the first time she had done that. The pure joy in his voice almost brought me to tears

[@beenaplumber8379]

A rush of warm fuzzy feelings just went through me! Hugs for the three of you from Minnesota! ♥♥♥

[@Chrisko1492]

So what? It is still such an irrelevant topic and Bloomberg is right, that talking about it CONSTANTLY will only weaken the left and strenghthen the right. How many people are transgender? Way less than 1%. Who the fuck cares? Stop talking about such tiny minorities and focus on REAL problems.

[@zax2004]

@@moiseman There is something wrong with people like you making comments like that in response to a comment like the one here.

[@vegandolls]

you're sick. Congrats on gaslighting tf out of yourself and your mother

[@UltaFlame]

@@zax2004 just report for misinformation or hate speech and move on. Don't feed them. More importantly, I'm so glad for your partner!

[@danieladmiraal9371]

What Dylan mentioned is the same joy that two of my friends always tell me about when someone calls them maam instead of sir. They are always just so excited after it.

[@FlyingKaida]

I'm trans femme an my sibling is non binary femme leaning. And I can attest to this. Even years after starting treatment and passing most of the time, we still look at each other and giggle joyously at being 'ma-amed' again. Spending so much time in a very conservative place feeling out of touch with anything that made us feel seen and now having this, it really feels as the best thing ever. Just that, just being seen and accepted as the people we really are.

[@yunogasai3350]

@@FlyingKaida to use the things transphobes try to use You'll never be a man, know that and feel loved for being the femme you were always meant to be! 💕

[@alexandergamble8572]

Sometimes my brother will say ( my name) is a boy and I just start crying happy tears. It still gets me every time

[@FlyingKaida]

@@alexandergamble8572 It's amazing how wonderful it feels to be validated and accepted as who you are!

[@perimele6]

If your happiness depends on external validation, your spirit will inevitably fracture.

[@FireElement7]

I had endometriosis pretty much as soon as I hit puberty. I suffered the pain and all the other horrific things it caused until I was finally able to get a hysterectomy at 36. No doctor wanted to do it before because of the chance I might want to have a child, even though I told them I didn't want any. In the end the disease was so bad, I couldn't have had any if I even wanted to. Take into consideration that I had full medical insurance the whole time. If it was that hard for me, you can't tell me kids are getting these irreversible surgeries at a whim. Thank you for what you do Mr. Oliver. You are much loved ❤️

[@peakedmalefeminist9782]

Endometriosis is a real problem. Wanting to self harm with surgeon assistance is not.

[@ruthlessclaw5168]

@@peakedmalefeminist9782 point went over your head

[@stephybabs3233]

I would urge you to look more into the detransitioner's stories because you couldn't be further from the truth. I understand what you're saying, and I wish that was the truth, but it's not.

[@marrchaney9206]

I feel so thankful that I have a doctor who listened to me. I'm 23 and getting a hysterectomy next month. I told my doctor "I would rather regret not having children, than to have a child and regret having it." I also explained that I want a permanent, foolproof form of birth control that can never be taken away from me. I don't want children, and I don't want to risk ever becoming pregnant. I live in a southern state, thankfully with still decent abortion care- but that could change in the next election. And I don't ever want to worry about being raped and getting pregnant, then being forced to carry that fetus to term. Absolutely not. And thankfully my OB said yes to a hysterectomy.

[@peakedmalefeminist9782]

@@ruthlessclaw5168 what point? To focus on yourself as an individual and not care about people who are being experimented on?

[@coderamen666]

I am a trans teenager. I am a straight A student and I keep in contact with my family. I hope this helps.

[@o.lyandzberg2784]

No way, and you have hobbies besides being transgender? Unbelieveable! You gonna tell me you haven't used any drugs next?

[@bean-phaidin]

"In some cases, transitioning can be giving you your kid back" Transmasculine here. Coming out caused a new sense of self-preservation which was a major impetus in my getting sober and, through recovery, restoring a relationship with my parents. Thank you for articulating something I didn't even have the words for myself.

[@annyk84]

That is awesome! Congrats to you!❤

[@all1soul]

Why not identify as a "human being"?

[@abandonedmuse]

Of course! Cause you feel ACCEPTED which is what parents should do. As a parent, my child is cisgender like me but I feel so much for kids like you. I’m glad you’re getting support. When my friend came out, his dad disowned him for many years and he was very sad.

[@SB-iy9vn]

Transitioning is actually the lost of your child into a cult of lies into believing in something that is not true

[@abandonedmuse]

@@SB-iy9vn stop spreading hate! These kids ARE NATURALLY THIS WAY! Some people, EVEN animals are born gay! I once knew a gay dog who didn’t like females and only wanted to procreate with other male dogs it was quite freaking hilarious and no one taught it that. Just by studying science you realize there are more than two sexes and most animals can transition from one sex to another and some completely like fish and snails depending on what is needed. So your puny thinking sounds so absolutely absurd to me. Read a book before you come talk to people like that.

[@raineob4996]

I’m a trans girl in Canada. Everything in this piece resonated with me. Thank you for boosting our voices. I realized I was trans and came out at 21 and had to meet with a psychiatrist to get on estrogen. I will need two consults with psychiatrists, to get expensive pre-surgery treatment, and will have to wait years. Even adults have to wait, no teen is getting this stuff so soon.

[@cha0sniper]

[@alyssinwilliams4570]

I was years in finally being prescribed estradiol, though I will add part of that was concerns with other health issues (clotting issues, estrogen potentially making it worse, etc). I more or less knew around.. mm.. age 24-25, when the world went from everything being self-contained, to suddenly having the internet at ones fingertips (late 90s), but I didnt come out for about 15 years, and am regretting every day I missed

[@ashleyp6591]

Good luck on your journey. Do you happen to know if there are Canadian charities that can help with these expenses?

[@alyssinwilliams4570]

@@ashleyp6591 From my understanding, the transitional surgeries themselves (bottom, top) should be covered by canadian health care, assuming one has the guidance from a doctor and/or psychologist (who basically has to 'prescribe' it or whatever). Pre-transitional Im less sure on

[@stoodmuffinpersonal3144]

I came out at 23/24. Years ago now. I'm so glad John does these pieces cause we need folks in our corner. I'm Canadian too. Also a trans girl. Got bottom surgery 2 years ago. Sending you love and solidarity ♡

[@ButchBirdie]

That "fricken dope" kid should not be having to prove his masculinity to anyone that was the most teenage boy sentence I've ever heard anyone say

[@words007]

Get out more meet more people, you will.🥱

[@ButchBirdie]

@@words007 ??

[@jetskiwillywilly7970]

theres probably a reason boys are being feminized on mass scale in USA kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJKlnWRqgNSml6c

[@Jiggerjaw]

I bet Fallon Fox thought it was frickin' dope to get to whoop up on some little girls too.

[@demo0831]

@@words007 oh lord your type. seethe 💀💀💀

[@TransHippie]

Trans kids are a very real phenomenon, and we've always existed. When I was young, we were tortured & it got called "treatment." The GOP wants to bring that back.

[@robertbuzuk9251]

So where are all the trans suicides back when trans were stigmatized?

[@user_hat]

@@robertbuzuk9251 first thing: trans folks are still stigmatized today. second thing: Suicide Risk Reduces 73% in Transgender, Nonbinary Youths with Gender-Affirming Care by HCP Live Facts About Suicide Among LGBTQ+ Young People by The Trevor Project More than 40% of transgender adults in the US have attempted suicide by the Williams Institute Transgender people face significantly higher suicide risk, Danish study finds by CNN theres MUCH more but that came from a single search.

[@KirstAngel]

I'm ftm, and let me tell you, the first time I cut my hair was a level of elation that I can't even begin to describe. Even now, every time I go to get it trimmed, I feel so much more like myself once it's done. I used to go months/more than a year without cutting it, and now I do it every two months like clockwork. Seeing the start of myself for the first time was so empowering and made me feel so confident. Similarly, the first time someone called me 'sir' (ty random zaxby's drive thru worker. You'll never know what you did for me), I had to fight not to grin like an idiot through the whole interaction. I'm not two and a half years into my transition and pass 100% of the time now, so the novelty has worn off a little, but I still get a small flutter in my chest whenever someone uses the right pronouns.

[@ghostbill1010]

That's great, same here. I hope you get any procedures you're looking into soon and for cheap. Also, you're very handsome in case nobody has told you that today

[@Sanorace]

When I got my hair cut short for the first time, I had to remind myself not to cry in front of the hair stylist.

[@BlueValleyTS]

I feel that! I’m nonbinary, but I still remember my first super-short haircut. My hair went from something I dealt with, to something I enjoyed. Binding was another big thing-I’m a big person, so it didn’t do TOO much, but it was an improvement enough to make me really, really happy. And I remember the first time I got sir’d by a stranger-mine was a pizza place 😊 I held a door for someone and he said “thank you, sir.” I said “no problem” all giddy and stuff, and the guy, an older gentleman, said “whoops, not a sir” (my voice is kinda high lol) and I thought about calling back “it’s okay, I’m non-binary, I’ll be riding the high from this interaction for weeks” without turning around, but I didn’t say anything in the end 😂 I just went home thinking “yesss, gender binary finally broken in real life!” That was like 3 years ago and I still remember it so perfectly! I hope cis people (and baby trans people too!) understand one day that trans identity is not all doom and gloom. It’s not all depression, suicide rates, and morbid statistics. There is PLENTY of joy to be had as well, and the priority needs to be helping people find it.

[@sonialelii9038]

@@bradj8215 😄

[@fee6362]

"God does makes mistakes" We all know he wanted to show a picture of Ted Cruz

[@sm00gzbear]

No one WANTS to show pictures of Ted Cruz. The midwest medusa.

[@Claymoresmash]

Goblin shark, Ted Cruz, same difference.

[@ElPolloDiabloCH]

He didn't? Looked a hell of a lot like Ted Cruz to me. /s

[@goul7712]

I thought he did

[@Ropetrick6]

They're the same picture

[@shewolf2584]

You wouldn't believe what my sister had to go through to get a hysterectomy and she had F cancer! No kid is going to walk into a doctor's office and get a hysterectomy, unless it is a life and death situation and even then they will have to fight for it.

[@couragekarnga8735]

More proof that ignorance is not as blissful as advertised.

[@MultiUnreal]

It’s really hard to get pain medication, even if you actually need it. Doesn’t matter, because there are doctors out there who will give out pain medication like there’s no tomorrow. If you don’t think the exact same thing is happening with puberty blockers, then you’re either ignorant or just sick.

[@gorillaguerillaDK]

And now, due to these Conservatives making laws against using Puberty Blockers, we're seeing a rise in kids who should be treated with it for other purposes than Gender Incongruence not being able to get the treatment they need! Precocious Puberty is increasing, and unlike delaying puberty for a couple of years to give a child time to socially transition to see if it’s something they wanna continue with, Precocious Puberty actually do have high risk of causing harm to psychological development and long time health! We're talking kids sometimes as young as two years old!

[@TRGDragon]

@@couragekarnga8735 ignorance is blissful for the ignorant and damming for the rest of us

[@bobhope3589]

No it's like if you legalize kid killing for "women" then you have teenagers and the like getting pregnant just to abort. Hell awaits... 🔥

[@DrJamieTalks]

Thank you, John. Your allyship is essential for educating those who are less informed. 💕🏳️‍⚧️

[@nikobellic570]

Wait till a man enters a changing room with his daughter!

[@DrJamieTalks]

@@nikobellic570 sounds like you’re just a bigot

[@mr.mrs.d.7015]

Its so funny (and tragic) that all of these adults fell for the litter box thing that some kids trolled them with after seeing the video of that teacher showing her classroom supplies in case of school shootings. How stupid

[@Laura-kl7vi]

A lot of politicians know it's bull but they're spreading it so they gain political power. They fan the flames. Someone who's governor for example has appointed a Secretary of Education in his state. He knows if it's really happening and it's not, so he/she is lying.

[@filipgolonka3758]

Where is that, can you send the link?

[@FlawlessP401]

It's hilarious to me you think child mutilation isn't happening. You have your head so deep in the sand it'd hilarious

[@DrachenGothik666]

@@filipgolonka3758 Colorado, the same school district that Columbine is in.

[@rebeccamaness4245]

Thank you for mentioning the joy. Time and again people who knew me on both sides of my transition (one for 16 years before) have said that I was the grimmest, angriest, most miserable person they had ever met. And now when they see me they always remark on how happy I am, that I'm always smiling and cheerful, and just enjoy existing. And I am. Before transition, I did not know happiness like this existed, or that I could ever live in it.

[@stephenievee1126]

🤗

[@phenomanII]

As a left-handed person treated for atypical depression, I feel like I can relate to that just a tiny bit, despite being a cishet male. The thought that a few decades ago I'd be forced to write with the other hand just because someone else told me to makes me angry. The idea that a few years ago there might not have been the right medicine to treat my depression makes me sad. The fact that these are no longer problems today gives me hope for the future of others. I'm sorry for dumping all of this under your comment, but the line "I did not know happiness like this existed" made me remember how I felt before treatment.

[@gsp4prez]

@Lugosi can I legislate against you and your family for something I don’t agree with you doing?

[@belladonna5012]

@Lugosi Speaking as someone who didn't "grow out of it" and is still trans twenty-two years after I first realized it, lololol.

[@belladonna5012]

@Lugosi I was 14 when I realized I was trans and 15 when I started seeking care, and instead I was abused and stuffed full of antidepressants and antipsychotics in the hopes that it would make me stop being trans. It didn't succeed at stopping me from being trans, but it did succeed at hurting me and warping my body in ways that I'll never entirely be rid of, and now people want to do what was done to me to other young trans people.

[@colingunn5227]

Fun fact, every kitchen I've ever worked has referred to the immersion blender as "the homewrecker", with the smaller, less effective one being referred to as "the husband"

[@chaoticdetectivepeach]

Damn I feel so bad for all the dudes that think they're all hot shit but they suck at being a partner, they're the same type of people who go, "I will never change a diaper" like bitch you will if you're not a trash person and actually contribute to the fucking relationship. Like bitch even I've helped change a diaper, and I really don't want kids. But I had younger siblings so yk I had to commit be not fuckin useless

[@altdoe9699]

I thought it was just the one I worked at.

[@MrAddis]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@sarahsmith3682]

🤣

[@jenski5338]

Yea...that sounds right.

[@deathXbyXlight]

Just saying, my sister was told in the 90s that she was playing too well to be on the under 12 girl's softball team and was put on the boy's baseball team, and nobody complained at the time.

[@RonFulkerson-ji7db]

Ok dear they we're 12 and under, of course no one cared, it would have been a lot different if they were 16

[@JackeryPumpkin]

Our culture definitely needs more of an emphasis on hope and joy

[@r-platt]

How sad that those we choose to guide us instead divide us. A house divided...

[@repeekyraidcero]

Fear n greed is too strong sadly

[@Mike-fx4nu]

Delusion really makes up for lack of affirmative reality.

[@dariocarraresi1823]

@@Mike-fx4nu You haven't disproven Jackery's argument. Point automatically conceded.

[@reniaesaddler8632]

Oddly, I didn’t find anything like that in this “report”

[@spiritualanarchist8162]

Interviewer :: ' Senator , Do you plan to cut more taxes for the rich ? ' Politician : Uhm...Let's talk about transkids thinking they'r cats. That the real problem right now

[@terrific804]

The stupid thought that in some way the rich can make up for the trillions of overspending by our government. Total worth of the top 1% 36trillion, total U.S. debt including unfunded obligations 126 trillion.

[@dariocarraresi1823]

@@terrific804 Cool, so let's reduce overspending. At the same time: tax the rich anyway.

[@terrific804]

@@dariocarraresi1823 So many are so simple minded. Why do you think they aren't rich too? The problem isn't how rich someone is, it's what they control. When the government allows 6 people, for instance, to own 95% of all media outlets what do you hear? The same propagandist shit over and over and over. Taxing the wealthy won't accomplish much they'll just pass the cost on to you. You want to do something, break up Facebook break up Twitter break up Exxon break up Intel break up Halliburton, Raytheon Kellogg, JBS, Kraft, Nestle, General Dynamics, Boeing, Citibank, Bank of America, BUT MOST OF ALL AUDIT THE PRIVATE BANK CALLED THE FEDERAL RESERVE. Don't be simple, they are not! Making them pay more in taxes is only going to cost you more. And give the government the opportunity to take even more. You and every man woman and child in the United States now pays $2,300 a year to the military industrial complex to kill millions and millions of people over the last 70 years.

[@terrific804]

Funny it's not us that are forcing people to mutilate themselves it's people that want to mutilate themselves telling other children that they should and that we should tolerate it.

[@terrific804]

Just who do you think profits from the overspending of the federal government. 680billion for FREE Medicaid. S.S. and Medicare paid for by workers but robbed by the government RETURNS 2TRILLION to those who PAID. Democrats, they're saying they're doing something about pharmaceutical costs😂 Take a look at the bill they're going to negotiate the cost of 60 drugs over 4years 3years from now, out of the 20,000 presently prescribed in the United States. One exception insulin. Who do you think's going to profit from that sham? They won't even tell you what drugs are going to negotiate. Pfizer just tripled the cost of their Jab😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Frizzleman]

Security guards guarding bathrooms is uniquely disturbing wow.

[@Frizzleman]

@John H Capry you’re scary bro. Kids need to be protected from you. I’d rather my child share a bathroom with trans children then be near bigots like you in the same city. Bigots statistically are more dangerous the trans people. Especially to children.

[@Vic2point0]

@johnhcapry Agreed.

[@dariocarraresi1823]

@John H Capry And now you're so deranged, you think that _wearing women's clothes_ is "grooming". Like, Drag Queen Story Hour wasn't about trans people at ALL, so you can't even use that as an excuse. You just hate anything that differs from Christian fundamentalist gender roles.

[@LGrian]

@John H Capry that’s some serious projection you’ve got going there pervert

[@magniwalterbutnotwaltermag1479]

​@John H Capry funny when you remember ww2 vets from both sides in europe did drag and even in ww1 rumours of pilots doing it and getting called for service even while dressed in drag exist

[@spencerg5893]

I grew up in a small town with an unsupportive parent who threatened me if I cut my hair. Now I’m 21, in college, out and happy with a boyfriend who loves me for me. I’m proud to be trans. I’m happy to be trans, and I don’t hate myself for it. I love being someone’s boyfriend, and someone’s son. Spread trans joy always

[@frankreads8618]

The best thing about the girl loving Dolly Parton is knowing that Dolly Parton loves her back.

[@LomuHabana]

She probably doesn’t even know who that is. Or learned it shortly before.

[@margotpreston]

@@LomuHabana Ok, and?

[@LomuHabana]

@@margotpreston you are (unintentionally) right, maybe she likes Dolly Parton. My point is, this speech is scripted by adults, most likely her parents who put her on television talking politics at the age of 6, and before a state senate committee when she was 11. Do people honestly think this is fine? That this responsible parenting?

[@margotpreston]

@@LomuHabana Yes, I do think that's fine. Because these legislators are trying to pass laws that maker her life worse. It effects her and her quality of life. Yes, it i beyond fucking tragic that this kid has to go up and speak before these legislators that are attempting to oppress her and everyone like her, but it is absolutely necessary. If you don't believe that people should stand up for their right, then you can sod right off.

[@LomuHabana]

@@margotpreston I understand her situation, but she is still a damn child, she is in the crosshairs of extremists now, you really think they gonna change their mind? Now, this attention is toxic for children.

[@howlercorp6431]

also lets address that no doctor in this country would be like. " ok lets get your uterus out" to any women because they literally have to get so many different peoples "permissions" just to make 1 decision about their body as well.

[@howlercorp6431]

cool story bro.

[@duckified.]

especially with roe v wade being overturned...? it's hard to see how you'd so easily believe that a doctor would just do that with no second thought. he acts like women have so much privilege when it comes to their bodies :/

[@carlsnyder4833]

Wow. The Ministry of truth deletes my reply with sources.

[@rolandwoltman7835]

@@carlsnyder4833 Carl, the truth is not welcome if it goes against the *new religion*.

[@origamiandcats6873]

Absolutely 100% true. It took me 8 years until I found a doctor who would agree. I had the hysterectomy 3 days before my 33rd birthday.

[@S8EdgyVA]

Wait... they cut off their family or is it the other way around?

[@TitularHeroine]

Yeah.... That $#!+ was so ridiculous.

[@jamespryor5967]

The families say things like "They cut us off, by making us cut them off, with their choices." And bad faith politicians take that at face value.

[@TitularHeroine]

@@jamespryor5967 And probably WANT to take that at face value. Refusing to verify facts or damn well knowing what the facts are and twisting them into this mockery.

[@violet7773]

Of course the families are going to victimise themselves "I told my child that they needed to stop being silly and go back to the gender they were assigned at birth or leave and never speak to us again and they left!! I can't believe they would just cut us off like that!"

[@RobertasKlemanskis]

They cut them :D

[@cewla3348]

1:33 i'm really glad kissmyass felt comfortable enough to tell us kissmyass neopronouns.

[@portalwalker_]

Oh, that was one pronoun, pardon me then, I thought they were seperate. So ass pronouns are kissmy/ass

[@Zedsuss]

"They immediately cut off their families" And "Walks right in and gets surgery" Makes me laugh. I've been trans for years and haven't even started hrt yet. Not only that, not all of us cut off our families. Most of us quite love our families, such as myself. We don't like being hated for being ourselves.

[@LobsterLadyyyy]

Also, even when the kids and parents grow distant, most trans kids don’t cut off their parents, it’s the other way around

[@aryssamansfield9735]

Also any trans person cutting off their family has nothing to do with the trans person and everything to do with lack of acceptance from their family. Imagine blaming kids for baseless hatred from their parents.

[@SoraQuill]

@@aryssamansfield9735 I have an amazing family who accept and love me. My fiance on the other hand comes from a traditionally Mormon family. Her brother left that cult and is now her ultra best friend again which is absolutely amazing~ But her mother... I don't think she'll ever be free of it. She willingly puts up with my fiance but I seriously doubt she thinks my darling's anything other than out of her mind.

[@rocketsurgeon1746]

Can we disagree without you calling it hate?

[@SoraQuill]

@@rocketsurgeon1746 Sorry, callous dismissal of an entire minority group leading to horrible outcomes for said minority group and no consequences whatsoever for the people who dismissed them. Is that better? I’d hate to make you feel slightly uncomfortable as a consequence for you belligerence when the denial of the minority’s existence and validity causes egregious amounts of harm. Gosh it must be nice having there be zero consequences to your actions! And then some fucker like me comes along and tries to assign some small level of consequence, that must ruin your entire world! My apologies, good sir, I shan’t ever do so again.

[@tanwin01]

My kid likes to say that they're "gender non-compliant" It started as a mistake when they were trying to tell someone that they are gender non-conforming, and now they've embraced it as an identifier.

[@m0ppp]

I like that.

[@spidergirlspinnerets]

best of love and support to you and your child, in all of their non-compliancy!

[@benzaiten933]

be proud of your strong kid, how amazing!

[@dragongirl89115]

I love it!

[@yikesmydude5641]

that’s so wonderful and also funny. I love it

[@akerravala]

"Trans kids dont have any hobbies" Clearly spoken by someone who has never seen a Dark Souls forum

[@eliasmg9144]

Ah yes, lgbtq agenda, when you lose all hobbies and interests right after coming out

[@LaineMann]

Or been to an anime convention. 🙄

[@anthonykerr6160]

Or been part of a discord dedicated to DC comics

[@samanthagregoryurich4167]

Or met very many trans kids. They are just like other kids for the most part.

[@Xxrocknrollgod]

Grow up , NPC

[@leosilburn257]

The litter box thing is way sadder than it sounds some classrooms have kitty litter and a bucket for school shootings so they don’t need to leave the class