Welcome to this episode of the award winning Best of the Left podcast in which we break down some of the pseudoscience the trans panic is built on.

Look at the political drive to erase trans people, understand how language

of moral panics shift over time, and present an alternate view of societal healing for a healthier humanity.

Sources today include It Could Happen Here,

The Tom Hartman Program, Upfront Ventures,

Medium, the Majority Report, and Variety with Additional Members Only Clips from Medium, and

it could happen here. I wanted to talk a little bit about quote-unquote rapid onset gender

dysphoria because that's been all over the place.

I mean, there's like a New York Times article talking about it like two weeks ago,

and it's, I don't know, really been a fiasco,

especially given how unbelievably tenuous the stuff they sort of faked, or not as they fake, like

unbelievably tenuous the like quote unquote study they did that got retracted was.

Yeah, and this is something that I actually saw developing firsthand and then did research on in 2019.

So let me frame this, I'll tell like my personal,

a short version of my oral history of this.

So it was around 2017 that I first heard the idea of children, you know, becoming

trans because of social contagion. And it just seemed to come out of the blue and it's like, what?

You know, gender identity is not contagious.

If it was, like, you know, trans people would have infected way more than like the less than 1% of us that actually exists. Not a very

effective contagion as far as locations. No. 30% and rising like no. Like, yeah, exactly.

It's like once you start looking at it, it seems kind of ridiculous.

A lot of it was because well, you know, you know, my kid was hanging around a trans personer

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