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🗓️ 26 April 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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In this special episode of the Michael Shermer Show Dr. Shermer comments on current events surrounding trans matters and reads his in-depth essay on the subject, originally published as one of his regularly Skeptic columns on Substack.
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0:00.0 | You're listening to the Michael Sherman Shower Show. |
0:18.0 | Hello everyone, it's time for another episode of the Michael Sherman Show. I am your host. |
0:19.0 | Michael Sherman, this is a special episode. |
0:21.0 | I don't have a guest. |
0:22.0 | Today I'm just doing some commentary I'm |
0:25.2 | gonna add probably at least one commentary a week or every two weeks depending on |
0:29.5 | what's going on in society and what I have to offer to say anything about it. |
0:35.0 | This one's going to be on what is a woman anyway. |
0:39.0 | I actually wrote one of my skeptic columns on Substack almost a year ago on this subject and it's only gotten crazier. |
0:47.2 | But before I dive into that particular column, eventually reading it, I'm going to add some commentary at the |
0:54.0 | beginning here when I said things are beginning crazier. Let me just start off by |
0:58.6 | say I do know some trans people. Deidro McClosky I knew before she transitioned, she was Donald McClosky back in the 90s and you know I just |
1:10.3 | I'm not trans phoe by I wish everybody the best that they can be and find happiness in any way they can. |
1:19.6 | She has struggled. |
1:20.8 | The Idra has and has written a memoir about this, rejection by her family and so on. It's heartbreaking. |
1:25.0 | But that's different from the question of rights and treatment and the science behind |
1:33.0 | transgenderism or sexuality or whatever term we want to use. |
1:37.9 | Let me just read here from a recent tweet |
1:41.1 | that I posted. |
1:42.2 | I'll read several tweets here just in the last couple of days |
1:45.0 | really maybe a week or two. Here I'm reading from an op-ed that was published in the |
1:49.7 | New York Post and I support the statement in this country people have a right to express their identity |
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