00:00:00.000class is in session hey everybody welcome to unlearn 16 classes in session guys we're here
00:00:09.720with Dean Blundell again this morning now funnily enough we planned it for nine o'clock I said nine
00:00:15.180is good he said absolutely I think the word he used was totes are you using that word in the
00:00:20.440first place then I said cool I'll send you a link at 850 and then I send a link at 850 and I'm
00:00:25.800waiting i'm waiting then i get an email separate email from dean saying cool we're doing this at
00:00:30.90010 right welcome to me welcome to me but welcome to being my friend um it's always an adventure
00:00:38.060when it comes to time yeah it was it was in the email stream where like just above it said
00:00:44.320yeah once again welcome to me i like it i like it keep me on my toes you never was it i apologize
00:00:51.720Joe I I was really looking forward to this and it was like so I don't know if you're like me
00:00:57.640but I'm I'm old like I just turned I turned 51 actually in about a week um and so like I'm
00:01:04.980starting to kind of morph into which is hilarious to me starting to morph into you know that guy
00:01:13.380that can really appreciate a really good early bird dinner special at the Olive Garden dude I'm
00:01:19.400already there i was right anna has us eating like at 4 30 5 o'clock every night does she really yeah
00:01:27.020oh you're you're you're eating like seniors seniors home level uh time because i'm all i've
00:01:33.560always been i go to you go to i teach or whatever i always get home at like 4 30 whatever and i'm
00:01:39.780starving yeah so i'm not gonna like what persevere until six o'clock when it's normal time to eat
00:01:46.660dinner no i'm gonna you know make zoodles at five o'clock and there we have it yeah you know what
00:01:53.540it's funny because we get into that all the time here you know do you snack until you're
00:01:58.500yeah till dinner like what's the because i yell at my kids all well don't yell because i'm not a
00:02:03.240yeller but i'm like dude we're eating in like an hour and they'll be like yeah but i'm gonna have
00:02:07.040this four pound cinnamon bun before we eat and i'm like to tide me over and i'm like well you
00:02:11.540won't be hungry for dinner and guarantee you they're not and it's because they're like you
00:02:16.360know 18 20 and 24 and i've seen your eating habits so when you say zoodles uh i'm like hey that could
00:02:22.780be a snack or a meal for joe and no one knows right beside for those who aren't watching i have
00:02:27.780beside me um a box of it's a great great pumpkin charlie brown family size vanilla flavored corn
00:02:36.460pops oh my god i didn't even know they had those is that like a collector's edition thing or do you
00:02:41.040plan on eating those to me somebody sent it to me from uh from the states are you a big cereal
00:02:46.920person uh no not really oh like i like i don't eat a lot of cereal but anything that's like
00:02:53.260kitschy like that like i want it you don't want it but you're not going to eat it right you're
00:02:58.140not gonna no no see we're big cereal people here because we've got four meatheads that like like
00:03:03.000to snack at like 11 o'clock at night and the easiest thing in the world is some cereal and
00:03:06.680there is a collection of like fruity pebbles and count chocula and honeycomb count chocula right
00:03:15.400now yeah of course we do everybody does waste i love because like i have a huge collection don't
00:03:21.720take my don't take my my breakfast cereal inventory i have a huge collection of blueberry
00:03:26.580count chocula frankenberry stuff did you ever see that tiktok yeah like i have shoes a t-shirt
00:03:32.120like pez dispensers old cereal boxes i don't like the new ones stop messing with my history
00:03:36.940but i when i when they re-released it i'm like i'm gonna i'll buy a box to keep and then i'm
00:03:42.960going to eat one right like i'm gonna try it i'm like oh my god this is like the worst poison i
00:03:50.940don't know what it was bad it's not good my go-to cereal would be like it's not like i like healthy
00:03:56.320cereal don't be crazy but my go-to would probably be like captain crunch captain crunch cuts the
00:04:01.880roof of my mouth listen i like look and is bringing me props right now these are my
00:04:07.020count chocula crocs right you know i wished i was born with that gear that collecting gear
00:04:16.520that one where it's like i like stuff from the 80s cartoons things like yeah like kitschy stuff
00:04:22.540like that you've got fruity is that fruity pebbles that's frankenberry and then i have
00:04:28.980because i have all of them and then i have boo berry i've never owned a pair of crocs before in
00:04:33.860my life and then i dropped god knows how much money on all these what else you got i feel like
00:04:42.740this is show and tell with joe i feel like i'm back in school because i'm with the teacher doing
00:04:47.540show and tell but i'm not showing anything you're doing all the showing in the telly i feel like i
00:04:51.620should bring that concept back to high school i don't see why you don't get to do that right i'd
00:04:57.140be slightly afraid of what they'd show do they not do show and tell in your school anymore you're a
00:05:01.780teacher you've been a teacher for a very long period of time well that's like a little kid
00:05:05.220thing i've never done that a day in my life in high school but maybe i should do that do you know
00:05:10.020how awesome that would be if you did show and tell with like high schoolers specifically high
00:05:13.700schoolers with something to hide who feel like they could maybe come to school and go hey listen
00:05:17.380i want to show you something and it's not good and what parents don't understand is your high
00:05:21.540high school student will spill all of your tea. If you guys had a fight last night, they're
00:05:28.900telling me about it. If they think you had too much to drink, they're telling the whole class
00:05:33.600about it. If dad bought a car and mom didn't approve, everybody knows what car you bought
00:05:39.300and how much you spent. There are no secrets in your home that there's, okay, outside of the
00:05:46.920really bad ones, let's not, everybody's going to be like, Joanna, you have no idea what kids go,
00:05:50.920listen I'm just being funny right now in a healthy environment of a home life there are no secrets
00:05:58.460they tell on everything just like they tell on each other constantly so it's a great point um
00:06:05.680and a good place to jump off uh because you as an educator obviously um watch and with bated breath
00:06:12.740as to you know the re-education of what's going on in Alberta and uh this week in Alberta they
00:06:18.960decided they were going to enact some policy and some law that basically says we're going to remove
00:06:24.480rights from every trans child we're going to remove decisions and options from trans children
00:06:28.880and their parents and we're going to get involved and insert ourselves in the process for every
00:06:32.880trans non-binary lgbtq student who might have some gender uh dysmorphia or some body issues and uh
00:06:42.480might be asking some questions we think they're too young she said we think that their minds are
00:06:46.800mush we think it's a phase that was a really heavily edited version of what i'm trying to
00:06:52.200explain to people but that was really what kind of came out of what what danielle smith said
00:06:55.820i think she tried to the only things you're missing are all the time she you know just
00:07:02.340pontificated about how much she loves kids and thinks kids are important and she needs to
00:07:06.560protect them like that was all the filler but the meat was exactly what you said she doesn't think
00:07:12.220now it's interesting i tagged you in a in a video on twitter um that said from 2014 right yeah
00:07:21.780talking about lgbtq plus issues how kids know their identities we have to support and it was
00:07:28.860virtually the opposite now in that video in all fairness because people will be like well they're
00:07:34.000not talking about surgery joanna okay but they were definitely talking about who they were dating
00:07:40.840and they were talking about what names they felt comfortable with.
00:07:44.480And there's a whole bunch of things that she protected, you know, 10 years ago.
00:07:49.940Now, some people would say, yeah, well, she got smarter now1.00
00:07:52.840because back then she was just the idiot who didn't know about1.00
00:07:56.800how much teachers were trying to manipulate, coerce, and indoctrinate kids.1.00
00:08:06.220Look, first of all, I think it's going to get stopped by the Supreme Court.
00:08:10.840number one. I really do. But there's interesting caveats to all of it. Number one, from what I
00:08:19.640understand, under 18 years old, surgeries are rarely, rarely, if ever happening. Actually,
00:08:27.060it's law in Canada that you have to be 18. Correct. Yeah. That's a federal law that it1.00
00:08:32.940covers. Yeah. And it has to come with, and keep in mind, I mean, I've had a friend who's
00:08:38.940transition. Zoe used to be named Zach is now Zoe. He's a truck driver. She's a truck driver,
00:08:43.660happier than she's ever been. And she had to go through in the age of, I think it was like 31,
00:08:48.32032, had to go through mandatory counseling on top of being over the age of 18 for like two years.
00:08:53.300Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So there's all of these huge, there's already all these existent
00:08:58.580laws and, and very big, um, hurdles to jump over in order to go through that process. So first of
00:09:08.320all she's really reasserting stuff that already existed under the auspice that it's new under
00:09:15.800the auspice that she's the only person that's protecting you know the mushy brains of our youth
00:09:22.940even though you know 10 years earlier she said they were brilliant they already knew and sexuality
00:09:27.480is genetic and predetermined yada yada yeah she also said they needed to be in that speech for
00:09:32.3202014 needed to be protected if kids are old enough to emancipate themselves from their parents they're
00:09:37.140old enough to make those decisions, blah, blah, blah. If you're 16 years old, you can emancipate
00:09:40.940yourself from your parents. If you're 16 years old, you can do that. You have to be allowed to
00:09:47.420make every other adult decision that you need to make. There's so many problems with all of this.
00:09:53.600Because as a teacher, I get very overwhelmingly angry at the thought that anybody is spreading
00:10:04.020the idea that any teacher is sitting in a quiet room with a kid talking about how they should
00:10:11.060transition, how this is a better way of living, whatever it is she thinks that teachers are doing.
00:10:16.780And we're hiding, we're seditiously hiding all of this stuff from their parents.1.00
00:10:22.200It is an utter crock of garbage. As soon as all of this started coming out, I started asking all0.99
00:10:29.660my teacher friends. I'm like, guys, have you ever been asked by a student, listen, I want you to
00:10:34.280call me, you know, by a different pronoun, but don't tell my mom or don't you dare tell my parent
00:10:40.100because, you know, something bad will happen. And I have yet to get to a teacher said, oh yeah,
00:10:45.800that happened to me last week. How long have you been teaching? 21 years. You've never had a student
00:10:51.320come to you, talk to you about their gender identification and say, listen, I need to
00:10:56.440transition and i need to do it now and you've um you've never so what you're saying is you've never
00:11:02.100actually tried to co-convince you haven't seen a child try to be convinced by a teacher that hey
00:11:08.740listen you should open up your mind because this is the narrative right this is what they're hiding
00:11:12.100behind this is the blunt object and instrument it's to vilify teachers as groomers tell you the
00:11:17.360teachers are giving these kids options to be what they are not born into which is whatever body that
00:11:22.020they happen to identify in at that time and so the vilification process is just mandatory in that
00:11:27.360in my opinion and it's mandatory to say all teachers are doing this but you're saying you
00:11:31.480have never ever ever and you've never seen a teacher you've never heard a teacher you've
00:11:35.820never canvassed a teacher you've been teaching for two decades you've never seen anybody go hey
00:11:39.760listen it's grooming time yeah sure i'm gonna i'm gonna sit you in a no like and i've had have i had
00:11:45.800kids that have come up to me questioning their um it's so funny everybody thinks because i'm the
00:11:51.860gay teacher um that all of these kids who would question that they i'd be their go-to here's the
00:11:58.860funny part i am their last go-to why because i'm too for somebody who's for somebody who's out
00:12:07.200sure for somebody who's questioning for somebody who's uncomfortable who's somebody who hasn't
00:12:12.300quite decided you know what they're comfortable telling people they won't i i'm not their go-to
00:12:19.620i'm too much on the nose for it do you understand yeah the kids that are that are figuring it out
00:12:28.100um i'm not now i'm not saying never i'm just saying on average kids have come to me and talked
00:12:35.860about their identities we have included parents in that conversation we've helped parents as a school
00:12:43.220sort of connect with the actual community that they need to go talk to whether it's um you know
00:12:52.180psychological help um we don't actually connect with any other doctor other than well we can help
00:12:57.940connect your family to a therapist so you guys can go have these important conversations because also
00:13:03.780just because i'm gay and i have a short haircut sure as hell does not make me an expert on trans
00:13:11.140issues everybody thinks i'm like guys i love it i love how they think you're go-to because you're
00:13:19.380gay they're like hey listen she's gay so she'll know all about all the things to do that live0.93
00:13:24.900around the circle of gays like she'll know like it's it's ridiculous funnily enough you know who0.98
00:13:30.820has more of a of a sort of expertise my mom worked at wellesley hospital in the 80s when they first0.99
00:13:38.660started doing um transsexual operations transgender operations uh way back in the 80s and my mom was
00:13:47.060working on plastics when that was happening so like my mom has a lot of very interesting
00:13:54.740perspectives on it now you got to know in the 80s these surgeries and the hormone therapies and all
00:13:59.780of that stuff wasn't near as advanced and um precise targeted yeah right so you know my mom
00:14:10.900but but that's the person i don't know people are like what about the hormone therapy
00:14:17.380and you know who else doesn't know danielle smith and this is what pisses me off
00:14:22.740our medical community our psychological and child development and psychiatric community
00:14:29.620our trans community. Those are friends and family who are going through that struggle.
00:14:37.420Those are the freaking experts. And I feel as though politicians who want to use this
00:14:44.000have discounted the mountains of experts in favor of Tucker Carlson and Jordan Peterson
00:14:51.580and three medical people that they happen to find that are on the verge of getting
00:14:56.160kicked out of the college that's who they're using you know and I and it's so incredibly
00:15:02.940frustrating because when people you know what do you think Joanne I'll tell you what I think I
00:15:06.860think nothing because I am not as I I think what the what those communities I have just stipulated
00:15:14.940I think what they think because what the hell is it of my business my lack of expertise my lack of
00:15:22.820experience to dictate any of it. That would be like me dictating what kind of, what level of
00:15:31.120SSRIs people need who are going through depressive states or, or what level of chemo should people
00:15:38.440get? Telling your doctor how to do your appendectomy. Are you okay? Like it's absolutely
00:15:44.560asinine, absolutely asinine because the more that we do this with parents, by the way, this,0.92
00:15:51.660What she's talking about aren't parents' rights. She's hilariously enough minimizing. She's taking away parental rights when it comes to their trans kids. Forget parent rights. She's actually obliterating children rights.1.00
00:16:06.560She's abolished individual basic human medical rights for any child who identifies as anything other than straight until they're 18 years old. And she's also at the same time removed or plans on removing the rights of those parents to inform consent to any type of therapeutic, any type of understanding, any type of medical procedure, any kind of professional help that that child needs.0.94
00:16:33.400they've removed that right of that parent to decide on that course of action as well.
00:16:37.700Let's talk about nicknames and pronouns first and foremost. Surgery and hormones gets into a world
00:16:46.660of sometimes permanence if it's surgical. You can argue about hormones and all of that. By the way,
00:16:52.480all of that requires parental consent. Let's move all that here because, by the way, there's a lot
00:16:57.220of a lot of kids over 14 years old that are allowed to determine their own medical health
00:17:03.000choices. For example, if you have a parent that believes in a religion that says you don't get
00:17:08.020blood transfusions, as somebody older than 14, you're allowed to now start advocating for yourself
00:17:15.740and saying, whatever they believe, that's cool. If I get into a car accident and I can't get a
00:17:23.000blood transfusion based on their religious belief? I'm not into that anymore. Are we not protecting
00:17:28.420those kids? Of course we are. Of course we are. So kids are allowed to make medical decisions and
00:17:34.720you're starting to see them being able to make more. Or what about the parent who says, I don't
00:17:38.340believe in cancer treatment. You're just going to have to manifest something different. That's how
00:17:45.160this works in our family. Well, again, you have parents now overriding medical communities and
00:17:53.800what their 14 and 15-year-olds are actually wanting to do for the health of themselves
00:17:59.660into some big problems. What happens when parents are divorced and dad doesn't agree with mom or
00:18:05.400mom and mom or dad? Now what? Do we flip a coin? Does the judge just go, oh, well, we'll see?
00:18:11.580no what the judge will do is they'll listen to the parent and then shockingly they'll listen
00:18:18.040to the experts within the medical community and whichever one lines up that's the parent that's
00:18:23.480getting priority now with pronouns and nicknames for the love of god can you imagine all the
00:18:31.380paperwork about oh sorry i had this person wants to be called so my name's joanna and i say oh
00:18:36.380just call me Joe I need a consent form are you okay yeah yeah that that's the part that I love
00:18:42.720that you think that uh it's not okay as well and I know you would think it was not okay but it has
00:18:47.080a very real life perspective which you just touched on which is anybody who wants a nickname
00:18:51.160you know and that like let's say let's say your your nickname is Elizabeth you want to go by Beth
00:18:56.600yeah or let's say your friends call you and it's a cute little nickname they call you muffin
00:19:01.580or pudding and you're like you know what I prefer you just call me pudding or muffin or precious
00:19:05.540whatever it is that you like going by because your parents called you that your friends called
00:19:08.640you that your whole time in alberta you're gonna have to get a whole bunch of paperwork signed by
00:19:12.700your parents so that you can have someone call you by a different name i am no genius but i can
00:19:18.840tell you this that the premier of that province just so you know danielle smith who we're talking
00:19:24.620about who's enacting this legislation it is not a real name either it's marlena kolodnicki
00:19:29.800which is hysterical why do you know why she changed that i mean i realized that was true0.99
00:19:51.580I mean, you know, it's it's and and and if we're talking about using fake names and having permission to do that and you're now telling people under the age and not fake, it's what you identify as what you want.
00:20:04.340want to be called it's not these people are using fake names they're bogeying the system these other
00:20:08.500people want to use these names uh because this is who they want to be this is how they want to live
00:20:14.280whether you decide you're going to change your style your name it's a choice and you get to
00:20:18.500decide on that that is your own autonomy to be called whatever you want it's like body autonomy
00:20:22.860it's the same thing with name autonomy you could do and come and go as you please and the reason
00:20:27.140why the institution in alberta has an issue with this is because that institution is heavily bugged
00:20:31.440with overtly religious extremists on some parts of municipal politics, provincial politics.
00:20:51.820There's no permanency in choosing a pronoun and a nickname.
00:20:55.360So I'm going to go back to that in a second
00:20:56.840because controlling something that is impermanent,
00:20:59.740You lose the argument there. But if we're going to talk about elected officials, this is a really big problem or interesting dynamic within all democratic forms of elected officials representing their constituents because in a democracy, you are supposed to represent who has elected you.
00:21:22.960And that, let's be honest, Alberta, pull it together, because that's what Danielle Smith is doing. Danielle Smith is representing her constituents. Here's my problem. We live in a world, in a democratic situation where voting isn't your only democratic right and responsibility, where the majority of what people want gets to be enacted unless, and this is the caveat everybody ignores,
00:21:46.440It discriminatorily affects a minority population0.65
00:21:53.660You are not allowed to abuse your power as a majority0.72
00:21:57.120To enslave, oppress, and control the minority0.85
00:22:04.800That's the reason you can't use your power to say
00:22:07.940Everybody that wears purple, we are now paying less than a minimum wage
00:22:12.680Well, Joanna, the majority said they wanted it
00:22:14.980So our elected officials have to walk a fine line and they have to be able to tell their constituents, when you ask me to use the powers of this office to oppress, I will not do it because you're overstepping what democracy is.
00:22:31.880in fact, you're voting to undo democracy when you do that. And there needs to be lines. Now,
00:22:40.640the Supreme Court's going to slap her on the head, I guarantee you on this one. And she maybe will1.00
00:22:46.680use the notwithstanding clause. It's going to be a fantastic time in Albertan politics.
00:22:52.000But going back to pronouns, here's why it makes me uncomfortable. Everybody's like,
00:22:58.600look, surgery is permanent, hormones are permanent. I believe that's very, very true.
00:23:03.600And I believe that individuals are going to talk to their psychologists, their doctors,
00:23:09.980their endocrinologists. There's a lineup of people, those the trans community have to go through
00:23:15.620and go with in order to make any sort of change like that. And if they're underage,0.99
00:23:21.660then they're also their parents. Pronouns aren't that. Pronouns aren't that, right?
00:23:28.220Pronouns are just pronouns. You can call me he today. By the way, so many people do. People
00:23:34.620call me he all the time. You can call me they, them. It doesn't matter. You want to know what?
00:23:40.300Tomorrow I can change it. There's zero permanency there. There's zero permanency with a nickname.
00:23:46.340And so here's my question. If a parent thinks it's their job to be able to control every aspect of their kid's life when they're at school, what about the parents that say, oh, I don't want my kid playing with that kid because of their religion?
00:24:01.500i don't want my kid sitting next to that kid because of their race because of who their
00:24:07.240family is are we supposed to listen isn't that a parent if you've widened parental rights to that
00:24:13.800level isn't that what you've widened it to yes am i supposed to call home if if your kid
00:24:21.000is holding hands in the hallway with somebody of the same sex because that's where we are right now
00:24:27.120that's where we are and it's not just kids i mean if you want to talk about oppressing people
00:24:33.400because of decisions that they make based on how they feel and what they want in their lives right
00:24:38.220you're talking about hey and we talked about this in the podcast the other day um let's say your
00:24:43.660doctor notices that you start using viagra um and he knows that you're married and he calls your
00:24:49.600wife and he's like hey just wanted to let you know your husband is using viagra there's i don't know
00:24:55.620if it's you i don't know if it's you ma'am but you might want to ask him about all this viagra use
00:25:00.000um it doesn't matter whatever the situation is when it comes to your private medical history
00:25:05.440when it comes to what you want for yourself your body um whether it's ideologically based whether
00:25:11.580it is based in physiology whether it's based in the decision that you make because this is just
00:25:16.980how you want to identify those rights are effectively in alberta those rights are effectively
00:25:21.580gone and and i think when it comes to the pronoun issue which you point out is she wants to remove
00:25:28.560those rights because she said quote and this is in her speech those are adult decisions you know
00:25:34.120after she told them everybody they loved them just winked and she's like oh you're just a phase
00:25:37.760those are adult decisions and you shouldn't have to make irreversible adult decisions before you're
00:25:42.860an adult so we want to give you lots of runway that's kind of how she said it to your point
00:25:46.900pronouns are definitely not permanent. Whatever name you choose to go by one day,
00:25:52.880you can choose to go by a different name the other day. So if you're going to put all of this
00:25:57.140into a bowl and you're going to call that bowl of soup, it's just hateful soup. And it bears out
00:26:02.780with the hypocrisy in what she's trying to accomplish because these adult decisions are
00:26:08.480not permanent. In a lot of the cases that she cited as her need to make sure that she keeps
00:26:13.460kids safe. This isn't about safety. This was never about safety. This is about super serving
00:26:17.780a religious demographic with insider party that wants this. And so to do that, they had to paint
00:26:23.500everybody that teaches as a groomer. They had to paint everybody who teaches as the problem.
00:26:30.080And I've seen it tons and tons of times where they're like, hey, listen, everybody,
00:26:34.720we're not going to allow any teacher to teach their hands on our kids. They will never get
00:26:39.340their hands on our kids. That's the new thing. And it's, and it's a real grassroots sort of
00:26:43.760narrative. And so what I wanted to do is I wanted to ask you a question because I don't know what
00:26:47.760the process is like, right? Because out there, there's this boogeyman of a process. Some people
00:26:53.480believe who are hard right, uh, and might identify with, um, the need to not allow trans kids to be
00:27:00.080kids and the need that they think religious or otherwise to remove the rights of children who
00:27:04.280identify as not straight in any capacity so my question to you is this what is that process like
00:27:10.920now because that tells me a different story than the one that's being told by the david parkers
00:27:16.600and all the trolls out there who you know when you stand up for the trans rights children and
00:27:21.100you stand up for the individual rights of kids they automatically go straight to scalpel and0.98
00:27:26.520graphic you want to cut this off you you just don't love children you want to see them mutilated
00:27:31.460What is that process like? Like walk me through what it's like when a student comes to you and they're like, here's how I identify. Here's what I want to do with my life. And because it's not like, okay, here's a pamphlet, call the hospital and you're up in like three hours for a sexual reassignment surgery.
00:27:49.700No, the funny thing is, you're asking me for a process, again, that I am not involved with, right?
00:27:58.480But on a statutory level, yeah, on a statutory level, what is that process supposed to be like when you go for, like, you know, professional training as a teacher where they're like, okay, these are the things that you need to do, you need to.
00:28:08.200And that's not, here's the funny part.
00:28:10.600Teachers don't have any training on that level because it is not in my, I don't talk about it.
00:28:19.700it's, that's like me getting trained. So this isn't even an issue. This isn't an issue in
00:28:24.500school. Like you guys, you're not, you're, you're just told to like, Hey, just make sure you're
00:28:28.300nice to the kid. Don't give out the secrets. Like what is the, if a kid comes to with you with any
00:28:32.700sort of big life issue, your first, your first thing is to contact and involve parents. Yes.
00:28:39.960That's it. If they're afraid of the parent, if there's a, if the issue is fear and violence,
00:28:47.460your first thing is a duty to report to the authorities that exist in order to go investigate
00:28:54.540it. Now, that's the scariest thing a teacher ever has to do, by the way. Especially, I work
00:29:00.640in a private school. It's very different, right? The scariest thing in the world for me is knowing
00:29:05.780something's going on. A kid has come to me and said, A, B, or C is happening at home, or I think
00:29:11.480it's going to happen. And I have a duty report, which I always tell my students I do. And then
00:29:19.660when you make that call, here's the most terrifying moment. The most terrifying moment is now I've
00:29:24.900made that call. The choices about what's going to happen next all make me want to throw up because
00:29:34.060kids can take it back, even if it's true, because they don't want to leave their homes.
00:29:39.240and now if it's if they go into that home and a parent knows that they've been you know the
00:29:49.440child protective services have come in their home do we think the the threat of violence and harm
00:29:56.420escalates or de-escalates escalates right so now this kid is in a worst possible scenario
00:30:04.420since I work at a private school, there's also a really good chance they're not coming ever again
00:30:11.360to that school. Oh no, well now they're on it, right? So I'm pulling my kid out of that.
00:30:18.480So as a teacher, you're trying to figure out how do I best protect the kid, period. But don't get
00:30:26.380me wrong, I don't ever want to be responsible or I don't want to be put in a position where I have
00:30:34.180be responsible against a violent or an abusive parent it's the worst possible scenario for me
00:30:44.180because i have zero control and i know it's going to get worse before it gets better it's awful
00:30:50.420so let me tell you and be super crystal clear a kid comes in with a problem my first instinct and
00:30:57.380my first conversation with that kid unless it's including like you know other people in the school
00:31:27.320Like the kid can say, hey, listen, I'm not interested in doing this.
00:31:30.340I just want things to go back to the way they were.
00:31:31.840I'm really stressed and anxious because I've really upset my mom and dad and I've incurred the wrath of my parents, maybe one or two or both or none are abusive, who knows. And that is what I'm getting at.
00:31:43.160If Danielle Smith was really fixated on protecting kids, which I think, and empowering, forget protecting, let's talk about empowering kids to have a voice, to be able to, if they do have a voice and they say what needs to be said, there's a million people behind them ready to protect them as they need protecting.
00:32:09.240that's not what she's talking about at all she is talking about empowering not kids
00:32:17.080not student voices she is talking about empowering parents to control and limit because i'm going to
00:32:24.360tell you this also i have had obviously kids at my school who are who are trans who are lgbtq plus
00:32:31.240all of those things. And their parents, because good parents, healthy relationships,
00:32:40.560ones without abuse, they already know. Because they're close to them. They talk to them.
00:32:47.780I'm not the go-to. Exactly. They already know. And they might not already know in a I've declared
00:32:53.380it kind of way, but they already know in a I'm close with my kid. I talk to them all the time.
00:32:59.540I'm very much involved in their lives. I see it. Right. And so this notion that somehow I would want to put a kid on a path that isn't who they are is the most asinine and purposefully painful.
00:33:19.240Like, can you imagine being, and I can only imagine because I am not trans.0.68
00:38:41.140when we're talking about but but also all of those all of those individuals aren't looking
00:38:45.800for surgical no results either no no you'll like like two one in five apparently out of that out
00:38:52.560of out of the two to three thousand so you're looking at uh one in five you're looking at
00:38:56.720maybe six seven hundred people okay so when they're talking about they're taking this and
00:39:02.600they're saying there there are people out there who are convincing your kids to go down this
00:39:08.100horrible, horrible road. I don't, I, for the life of me, I laugh. Like the purpose of this convincing
00:39:14.760is for who's, who's benefit, but nonetheless, and they're weaponizing that and they're capitalizing
00:39:21.860on the fact that there's a lot of very real fears. And the thing that is very hard with all teens
00:39:29.680is actually consistently having dialogue, consistently having a relationship with your
00:39:35.800kids as a parent. Want to know why? Because teenagers don't care. They don't care about
00:39:40.540their parents so much at that time. And PS, they could give a crap about me. What they care about0.99
00:39:47.260are their friends and access points of peers now on this 20-year-old amazing technological
00:39:55.560advancement called the internet. If you want to know what you're, this is it. This is what you're
00:40:01.400You're competing with all of their peer group because the point of psychological or sociological
00:40:08.120development at that age is to differentiate, is to individuate from their parent to become
00:40:13.940their own unique person. That's why teenagers don't care what we have to say anymore.
00:40:20.120And so you are now saying, but the teachers have all this power to control and manipulate.
00:40:26.920and you're just trying to point the finger so that the government can step in and say,
00:40:31.740don't worry, we'll save you from it. When in actuality, that's not where the power source
00:40:38.020lies. They have absolutely no control. They are creating a boogeyman to pretend to solve your
00:40:44.360problem, to protect your kid, to get your vote. And none of that is happening. None of that is
00:40:49.700actually having an effect. And so I don't think it's just the alt-right sitting at home saying,
00:40:55.060I hate gay people. I think it's a lot of, look, middle class, middle educated, maybe a little bit0.97
00:41:05.700more isolated communities that don't have a lot of experiential, you know, relationships with many
00:41:13.080different diverse communities. And somebody's in their ear saying, this is what you should be afraid
00:41:19.140of your kids are at risk and i'm telling you it's the easiest panic button to press because your0.95
00:41:25.780kids are involved sure yeah and you just keep maniacally pressing it uh whipping up ridiculous
00:41:34.020levels of fear pointing a finger to somebody that they're going to exterminate and i use that word0.97
00:41:40.740precisely because this is garbage that's been used time and time again by many different people0.94
00:41:46.180specifically in 1933 Germany um you point a finger and you say it's them they're the ones0.99
00:41:52.420destroying your world they're the ones controlling your kids those are the people that are making your0.90
00:41:56.560life miserable those are the people that's the reason that you can't be politically incorrect
00:42:00.140if you want to those are the people that are telling you what to think and feel those are
00:42:03.640the people that are taking your jobs your mortgages those are the people yeah and I'm going to as a
00:42:09.000common enemy I got you I got your back I'm going without me you're going to lose to those people
00:42:14.800Exactly. And then you invite Tucker Carlson and Jordan Peterson, Tucker Carlson to speak to the masses because he speaks like he has zero education whatsoever. And that maniacal laugh. I don't understand how nobody has really done a deep dive on his psychological stability.
00:42:33.480And then you have Jordan Peterson stepping in with all of his very large words pontificating about these, you know, psychological phenomenons that are going in and how he sees them as being, they're trying to control, hilariously enough, the government's trying to control you by making you use preferred pronouns.
00:42:57.120And yet he supports Danielle Smith, who is making you used not the individual's preferred pronoun.
00:43:05.160Danielle Smith is using her governmental power to ensure that everybody uses the parent of the kid's preferred pronoun.1.00