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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

DETRANSITIONING: LUKA’S STORY

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Del sits down with Luka, an advocate for protecting kids from gender medicine, who herself medically transitioned as a teen before transitioning back to a female. Hear her trying journey telling of how the medical and trans communities have turned their backs on her.

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0:00.0

There's a lot going on in this discussion around gender and gender identity.

0:13.0

This is just a taste of how the media is covering this in so many different ways.

0:18.0

Take a look at this.

0:19.0

Kean was born Caitlyn, but from his earliest memories, he felt trapped in the wrong body,

0:24.4

living the wrong life.

0:26.2

And Betty Thomas was seven years old.

0:28.6

This children's book sparked a conversation about gender.

0:32.2

There was finally a breakthrough in those like three years of just complete anchor and sorrow.

0:40.4

More and more young people are emerging as transgenders.

0:45.5

Under that, that's a whole umbrella of gender identities, where people might have pronouns

0:49.8

that change day to day.

0:51.2

There might be people who have one set of pronouns for the rest of their lives.

0:54.4

Taking away kids' agency and the right to their own body is just anti-human.

1:02.4

It typically began in early childhood, it just two to four.

1:06.1

Little boys insisting, no, Mommy, I'm not a boy, I'm a girl.

1:09.7

When a two-year-old comes up to and says, Mommy, when is the good fairy going to come

1:14.2

with her magic wand and change my penis into a vagina, you're like, OK, this is not

1:19.4

typical.

1:20.4

This is not something a normal child would do.

1:23.0

I get and go to medical school.

1:25.1

My wife didn't go to medical school.

1:27.2

So we trust that.

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