AUTISM IN THE CROSSHAIRS OF THE TRANS MOVEMENT
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
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🗓️ 6 June 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Del, the gender space, especially in America, is got to be one of the most controversial |
| 0:05.6 | spaces to talk about right now. |
| 0:07.8 | And we really entered into it here at the high wire when we saw two things happen that |
| 0:12.5 | we've been well versed on in covering vaccines. |
| 0:15.0 | We saw the government in the medical community combine to come in between children and parents |
| 0:20.2 | during really important medical decisions. |
| 0:22.1 | And we saw drugs being pushed on kids that aren't really being studied for long term |
| 0:27.0 | side effects. |
| 0:28.0 | So this is where we're at. |
| 0:30.0 | And just a couple of weeks ago we had Luca, a D-transitioner, come on the show. |
| 0:36.3 | And she talked about the pressure she received during really a really big decision in her |
| 0:41.4 | life. |
| 0:42.4 | And this is just a quick look at how that went. |
| 0:44.4 | Check it out. |
| 0:45.8 | I started to open up about the fact that I was like, oh, well, I don't really like my |
| 0:49.8 | chest or I don't like the fact I would have got my period at that point. |
| 0:54.0 | And I was just feeling like generally uncomfortable with like growing up into a woman at the time. |
| 1:00.3 | As someone who was uncomfortable with their breasts and was wearing a binder at this |
| 1:04.0 | point, like consistently almost like eight hours a day or more, I was like, maybe this |
| 1:11.6 | will help. |
| 1:12.6 | And I had talked about it with my therapist at this point a little bit. |
| 1:17.2 | And from there she was like, yeah, we could get you into someone in your city that can |
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