The Trans Movement Is Hurting Young Women.

foreign [Music] welcome back to another segment of off the clock I am going to react to another full-length video today but that was not the intention when I started putting together this video I had noticed this influx of videos from d-transitioners whether it be you know they fully regret their experience or they're wanting to shed light on the parts of medically transitioning that they feel like are not told to people talking about how they were influenced as children and I saw all of these videos Drop within the span of like two months and it seemed like every day there was a new one and then I kind of went through and I searched and it was like one week ago two weeks ago you know within the last month and I just found that interesting because I did that whole episode about the transitioners over the holiday break and I pulled most of those videos from social media so those were shorter tick tocks clips from Twitter and I wanted to give a platform to some of these stories as well and so we were going through these different videos but this one stood out to my team and I just because of how you know articulate uh this young woman is and so we're gonna watch the whole thing because again historically these people's stories and what they have to say are suppressed doctors refuse to acknowledge it there is not a lot of data about detransitioning because a lot of that is done outside of the medical world you just stop taking your hormones you socially detransition there's not data on it people brush them aside as if they don't matter because it's not socially advantageous to the narrative and so I want to make sure we have space for stories like these uh this is a weird video for me to make but it's something that I've spoken about on this channel before and that is the fact that I used to believe or I used to be trans and since then I have detransitioned I was very young when I started feeling issues with my body and my self-esteem I was maybe 809 when I hit puberty tea and it was around this time that sort of my anxiety started then I started feeling discomfort Within Myself And when I got into high school I fell in with sort of an LGBT friend group in this friend group everyone sort of aligned their identities so fully with their sexuality or their gender that I began to believe that this was like normal that it was no more to have your sort of only personality trait being your gender or your sexuality this is a perfect example of what we mean when we say that this is social contagion it's very very normal to be uncomfortable in your body as a young person going through puberty starting middle school high school it's a weird time nobody has fun things are changing hormones are raging it's very very normal and because like she is saying sexuality and who you're attracted to has become like this defining characteristic and your personality and kind of defines who you hang out with and your coolness obviously people are going to gravitate towards that especially because in the like hierarchy of I guess like a weird way social classes the lgbtq community dominates right now they say they're oppressed but they dictate Trends they are shown in every kind of of advertisement they're the cool trendy edgy going against the status quo kids when literally like they are not really going against the status quo they are dictating the status quo so obviously confused young people if they are brought into that group yeah no [ __ ] they might have some confusion I fully remember many of my friends saying oh my only personality trait is that I'm gay or whatever and that was the way that I thought friendships and that I thought people were supposed to be that um we were in this sort of righteous bubble uh that sort of defied societal conventions and when I sort of saw the idols that my friends looked up to um people like Elliot page or Hunter Schaefer I would see posts from trans people that say essentially you know I struggled with my body a lot when I was younger and then I finally realized that I was trans and I decided to fully transition I.E like double mastectomy or bottom surgery and then I finally felt happy and when you're young you don't really tend to sort of assess the information that you take in you sort of see at least for me when I saw that information I thought to myself okay not instantly but over time you come to think okay well that is the solution to issues with your body and issues with your femininity for Generations it has commonly been understood the young people do not make the best decisions there's a reason why there is a voting age there's a reason why you cannot join the military until a certain time you can't buy cigarettes buy alcohol any get a tattoo you can't consent to medical treatment however the narrative is completely flipped when it comes to this ideology and when talking about young people who believe that they're trans it's like oh well obviously they know what is best for them they feel it this is who we must we must support the children but no they are confused they are following a trend they are following a crowd but there are so many other young people out there who just have no idea what is going on and like she said do not have the ability to think critically about hmm I wonder if the information that I am perceiving and understanding is good for me and I wonder if I am taking this as reality when really it's just my stupid idiot friends also being ridiculous and insecure and Confused maybe that should not be like the word of God in a way I decided very very early in my life I think as soon as I was 12 with that team that the second I turned 16 or 18 or I had raised enough money I would essentially run away from home and get a double mastectomy my parents weren't even necessarily against trans people but the whole sort of culture of LGBT um culture of LGBT teens is that you are in some ways misunderstood by your parents that I know now that my parents love me no matter what but still I would find reasons to sort of resent them and to find sort of excuses to isolate myself further and further from them probably because this is what my friends were also doing and what a lot of the people I admired went through to like issues with their parents which is really sad looking back on it it's literally just 2023's version of peer pressure and going through Trends being goth being emo terrible low-rise jeans whatever it is except this actually has irreversible damage on your body if you take it too far but everything she is saying peer pressure learning from your friends social Contagion I'm very very skeptical of a movement that encourage directly or indirectly this is a very charged sort of um it's charged vocabulary I don't intend it to be sort of criminalizing them but I'm very skeptical of a movement that sort of isolates children from their parents and makes them the brave statement question their parenting and encourage almost encourages them to step away and to sort of have a found family rather I'll be even more Brazen than she is because I really don't care about people finding this and canceling me and being upset at me because they already are if they don't like me they are not unintentionally trying to separate children from their parents they are with everything that they do I mean think about schools you send your kid to a school for six to eight hours a day that is really really imperative important time you are losing with your kid and that teacher is taking over for you basically is teaching your kids about you know social constructs about gender ideology they're the ones teaching sex ed they're introducing them to all of these really really charged subjects that you should be able to educate your children about at home and then we see in everything from Disney TV shows to like mainstream Hollywood entertainment children hating their parents and being distant from their parents that was one of the reasons why my mom never let me watch Disney Channel because she would always say you are never more rude to me and disrespectful and angry than after you've gone to a friend's house or been in a hotel and have watched Disney Channel because all of the characters on those shows they were so disrespectful to all of their parents and they're so and the parents are out of the picture or they depict them as being idiots like think back about all of those Disney and Nick shows the parents are bumbling morons and like don't pay attention to what their kids are doing things like that make an impact subconsciously and then we think about Hollywood and we see these TV shows like Euphoria the parents are obviously not involved a hands-off situation then we see what goes on in the government where oh if you do not allow your child to transition if you say no I don't want you to go on hormones your rights can be stripped that's not just something that's happening in Canada it's happening here in the U.S parents are terrified to lose custody to push back against this because not only will they get canceled but they could lose their kids so I will be totally brazen and stand totally confidently in the statement that yes they are trying to take your children from you emotionally physically legally because that is how you gain control over an entire generation mic drop if I do say so myself but she's making incredible points but I was just gonna drive it home because I don't really worry about people being pissed at me it was very very easy to fall into the mindset of no one understands me I'm from a different generation my issues uh completely unique to me but the truth is that when I spoke about it later on sort of after with a few of the women in my family they too have like struggled with feeling feminine younger in their younger years that doesn't necessarily mean that they're trans no one ever explained to me that puberty would be a difficult time emotionally I knew of course that like hormones were High and um like my body would change but that was about it no one ever told me that your it's a strange feeling going from sort of childhood to adulthood and the difficulty of that does not Point necessarily to your gender identity it just points to sort of your own discomfort and mental health I think that's an important point because you have this entire you know age group of people who are already struggling uncomfortable and like she said you're provided a solution and that solution tells you that you know you're going to be totally happy and comfortable in your body you're going to be the real you here to be with a really cool group of people you're gonna be rebelling you're gonna be different than your parents when like she said it's not a solution at all it's just kind of like baiting kids into it a little fading is the right word but the foundation that puberty lays it's just a very vulnerable time I publicly identified as trans or non-binary for four years until I was I think 15 or 16 and off to which I sort of made an Instagram post that said um I'm not trans anymore and then I think I deleted Instagram and I sort of isolated myself for a very long time because whether or not it was real I sort of perceived the whole wide world to be against me so I had sort of built myself into this little victim mindset because of course people didn't fully understand the fact that I was non-binary I mean a lot of people did not because we were 12 and 13 and this was a new thing but I took that very very personally and I took that to mean um that they were against me when they probably weren't I assumed that the people who had been my friends when I was trans would stop being my friends after I stopped being trans which was true my LGBT friend group pretty much instantly disowned me um and I then to some extent because I was slowly coming to terms with the fact that I did not want to be friends with um with people who I considered to be superficial the next couple of years after I sort of publicly detransitioned were very very hard it was really difficult to sort of re-establish myself knowing that I had made such a huge mistake and that was probably Amplified by my own feelings of depression and Social Anxiety I have to say I'm incredibly impressed with the self-awareness that she has she is not only just talking about you know the culture that she was in in school and this friend group but she's acknowledging okay I felt like this which allowed me to be vulnerable to that I had this victim mentality it's just incredibly impressive that's hard to do and it's even harder to publicly talk about so it's just impressive and also breaks my heart hearing the part of that story where she felt like she had to delete Instagram which is healthy so it's nothing against that but where she felt like she had to totally isolate herself because she had made this mistake and was you know going against this ideology that nobody wanted to hear her story so many of these transition stories they're suppressed because they are immediately exiled from that Community doctors only it's not it doesn't fit an agenda obviously you're going to feel alienated which it should not be that case I don't think I ever fully reintegrated back into like high school Society after that because I found it really embarrassing um it was a difficult thing to have gone through so young and to base your whole identity around and it's such a big thing that when you realize that you're no longer that thing the people around you just turn essentially being so young I was so impressionable and I read recently that it takes 14 times of being told something for a child to believe it and so I suppose it could have just been that I was told so many times it's possible that you're trans it's possible that you're trans that eventually I started to believe it that is just I never heard that number before that is crazy like think about the content the children consume where they're subconsciously learning all of this whether or not somebody is telling them you are gay you are whatever you are trans they're learning all of this subconsciously if their teachers are saying oh anybody could be anything and you know you can change your gender at any time if it's only 14 times that that has to occur yeah like no [ __ ] this is a problem of course they're misguided of course they can't make an informed decision they're 12 or 13 years old maybe even younger no one really talks about um the rising amount of young women who at some point consider themselves trans either medically transitioned or didn't and then came to regret it the only real time I've had this discussed publicly or online was through a Joe Rogan podcast with Abigail Sharia who's also written a fantastic book that she basically says that to some extent being transgender now is to what is is to depress teenage girls what say anorexia was in the 90s or drugs were in the 70s it's sort of what girls who have home problems who have issues with their body who have issues with their family it's what they turn to as a solution for their Identity or not solution but what they base their identity around so I've talked about this in other videos and totally open about it I've told the story about my mom in the car with me when I was probably 15 or 16. I don't remember I needed to actually figure out what year this was or I was struggling so much and I totally rejected every part of my femininity puberty was awful I hated it I didn't feel like I fit in with girls and so I dressed like a Butch and I acted like a guy and I only had guy friends and I would say I don't have any feelings for guys like I'm not I don't do that I'm not silly and whatever and she had to literally stop the car and say like it is okay to be both you do not have to reject the parts of your personality that make you a tomboy that make you like running with the guys and like playing those sports that does not make you have to reject the things that make you a woman that make you female that was really really pivotal and important conversation and I'm so grateful that she had the awareness of the situation to be able to bring that up in a very matter-of-fact way that I think a lot of parents would shied away from that kind of conversation so I'm very grateful that my mother's not shy about anything but it was a really really important conversation to have and then on the topic of anorexia and that sort of thing like I also have dealt with disorder dating like I had as many things you could cram into a childhood I basically had it and so it was so important that these Converse stations were had with me and that I was taught self-awareness at a very young age that I was taught healthy coping mechanisms and I know therapy can be controversial these days but I'm so glad that I went to a therapist who did not tell me to change my gender and did not let me feed into any of that but I never thought that I was trans but just hearing stories like these talking about young women who come from like broken families who have dealt with so much stuff that already felt like they didn't fit into their bodies and didn't feel like they fit as a woman that might have happened because that was me I fit perfectly into that model and I'm somebody now that is like so I stand so strong in these values that I speak against this and it's just shocking to me that literally like less than five years ago Could Have Been Me Food For Thought guys I can see it now how incredibly High the levels of transgender people are rising particularly amongst young teenage girls I mean it's unprecedented it's a several thousand percent increase in the last 20 30 years and you have to consider that some of that that must be cultural and some of that must be societal I don't think it happens organically that you know such a huge percentage of young girls just wake up one day and realize that they're trans another point on this a lot of people who kind of fight back against these statistics they say well the numbers are exploding because this generation is just you know more Progressive and it's acceptings more people are coming out yet with this generation being more accepting the subject matter is being discussed more openly people are being taught about it at rates that we've never seen before so by default that is cultural by default that is influence whether you like it or not so you can objectively say oh no this is all biological this is all natural no you are basically finding the fault in your own argument because you're admitting that there is a greater awareness greater conversation we're all open about this then what is the result of those conversations of it being portrayed in the media of it being this like cultural phenomena and you know social contagion but the trouble with this is I mean despite the fact that I date women not exclusively I don't identify as being part of the LGBT community because to me the LGBT community or the one that I have experienced clings so much to its beliefs and to its system and its agenda it makes me think of that video that I reacted to I think it was a guy and he was like you aren't queer if you never wore a mask like queerness is political the Q stands for like social justice which was like okay that actually makes sense because I've never known what the Q actually stood for but it is totally true what she is saying they are part of an ideology they have an agenda as a community my friends who are gay or lesbian they totally reject that they also totally reject the fact that their sexuality is the end-all be-all of their personality it's like the least interesting thing about them my best friend Amir is gay and he has a husband and you know we go do things together and yet I'm not sitting around thinking about a sexuality all day he doesn't sit around talking about it all day he's just mere he doesn't identify with any of that because he doesn't feed into the political [ __ ] but anyway I just thought that reminded me of that video because it was like oh my God you're saying the quiet part so out loud that we have been saying and that you're admitting it like a weird gotcha that didn't do anything because it's not like they're ashamed of their political agenda they're so happy to own it which is even weirder I don't think it's right to sort of attack anyone who doesn't agree with your specific Dogma um and this is in nowhere an attack if anything it's me speaking about my own experience in a not officially but rather leaving the LGBT community and it's a difficult thing to talk about I know that a lot of people will probably resent me for putting out this video despite the fact that I've tried to stay as true to my own emotions and experiences as possible but I do it with No Malice in my heart if anything I do out of empathy for other young girls who are like me who see this as the new solution to their issues with themselves and their femininity every day I am so so grateful that like my parents didn't have enough money for me to medically transition at 12 or 13 or that I didn't run away from home and decide to have a double mastectomy and you know this is becoming a rarity these days like I am shocked that she was able to go through this like you know four and a half five year journey and not get you know started on hormones not get you know put into the queue for a double mastectomy because people say oh you know that doesn't happen until you turn 18 you can't do it no it does and parents are so afraid that they just go with it and then you see these stories where in less than five years she realized oh my God no this is not me actually being true to myself she came to all of these realizations in less than five years imagine what would have happened if she had done irreversible damage to her body so then think about all of these young people who have gone down this path they feel the same shame in the emotions that she felt as she was detransitioning having to announce it to the public losing all of her friends and now you have also done things to your body that you cannot change anymore it's heartbreaking and it's yeah voices like hers they're just so important if I had not had to wait so long on the NHS I would have regretted it so much I mean my in the past couple of years my feminine see has brought me so so much and I never would have been able to experience that had I not de-transitioned and taken the time to really consider my own identity and I know I'm not alone because I personally have at least like five to ten friends that have all done this uh to some greater or lesser extent and I think the statistics mirror this too it's something like a majority of people who transition are equally as depressed as they were before than they are after and I think the percentage of suicide goes up very very highly uh five years and after medical transition for a large percentage of people it was always posited as a life-saving um surgery to have sort of top or bottom surgery and it's I think it's such a huge decision to make without having been told the other side of it things like testosterone they tell you that it's not permanent but it is if you take a look at some of the public sort of detransitioners who have been on testosterone who have become infertile because of it because that is an inevitable side effect of testosterone um who experience joint pains their whole life chronic pain um fevers anything like that it's just it's it's something that I wouldn't wish on anyone to look back and realize that they made a mistake it's such a huge and irreversible mistake to make before they make any permanent decisions take a long long look inwards heal your mental health first of all so that is the biggest thing I think heal your mental health and then consider if you still feel uncomfortable within your own sexuality or gender after I healed my mental health I feel almost no inclination towards like masculinity or androgyny and I think that's the case for a lot of people who sort of experience depression in their earlier years but then change as they get older it's a terrible mistake to make and one I hope that is made a lot less often obviously it's not a mistake for everyone I'm not talking about everyone I'm talking about the select few who are socially pushed again I'll be much more Brazen than she is I don't think it's a select few I think it's a lot of people if I had had the choice when I was 12 or 13 I fully fully would have believed yes I want to be infertile my whole life just for this and now having children is like my number one goal in life it's my biggest goal it's it's my dream now to have children and it breaks my heart that that could have been taken away from me if I had been encouraged just a little bit more by my parents or by you know the system or the NHS or anything like that again I only send Love and Hope and peace out to all of you and I hope that you find peace within yourself if you're watching this video and yeah love you I mean like that was one of the if not the best like testimony I've ever seen because she hit so many important points of this situation whether it be like mental health being a real driving Factor talking about young women specifically talking about the peer pressure she truly hits everything and my goal in reacting to this obviously not trying to debate any of it or do anything like that but I just think these stories like she said they get suppressed and people who choose to detransition they face so much Social pressure after the fact they lose so many people they deserve to be heard and so I just wanted to amplify this and then be able to add to it in my more aggressive way because I already have solidified myself in these opinions and obviously I'm going to link her video in this description her name is Jamie if you want to go support her she has been posting some other videos I think this is by far her most popular but she has also talked about uh sobriety and drug addiction if you're interested in that sort of thing go support people like her it really really is important so anyway thank you guys for sticking around obviously and watching another one of these reaction videos I'll see you next time 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Length: 26min 57sec (1617 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 12 2023