Podcast: Understanding the "Trans Cult"
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
The idea that children who exhibit anything but stereotypical behavior must be transgender has taken our society by storm, and now anything but "affirming" treatment is seen as abusive. But what are we to make of entire peer groups of teenage girls deciding together that they were born in the wrong bodies and are actually boys? Of children being subjected to life-altering hormones and destructive surgery?
Author Naomi Schaefer Riley, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, joins Shane Morris to discuss her review of Abigail Shrier's book Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, as well as her review of Lisa Selin Davis's upcoming book, Tomboy.
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| 0:00.0 | The idea that children who exhibit anything but stereotypical behaviors must be transgender |
| 0:08.0 | has kind of taken our society by storm of late. |
| 0:11.0 | And now anything but so-called affirming treatment is actually seen as abusive and bigoted. |
| 0:16.0 | But what do we make of entire peer groups of teenage girls suddenly deciding together that |
| 0:21.8 | they were born in the wrong bodies and are actually boys? |
| 0:24.9 | What are we to make of children being subjected to life-altering hormones and even destructive |
| 0:29.7 | surgery? |
| 0:30.8 | Are we open to the dystopian future activists in vision in which most people reside along |
| 0:37.1 | a kind of non-binary spectrum or in a gender |
| 0:41.1 | soup of sorts. |
| 0:42.9 | Well, writing at Commentary Magazine, my guest today, Naomi Riley, has recently reviewed two |
| 0:48.0 | books on this subject, Lisa Davis's tomboy and Abigail Schreier's irreversible damage. |
| 0:54.1 | Naomi is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she focuses in Tomboy and Abigail Schreier's Irreversible Damage. |
| 0:57.4 | Naomi is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, |
| 1:00.7 | where she focuses on child welfare and foster care. |
| 1:04.0 | She's also a senior fellow at the Independent Women's Forum and the author of six books, including Be the Parent, Please. |
| 1:08.1 | Stop banning seesaws and start banning Snapchat. Naomi, thanks so much for |
| 1:13.1 | joining me today on the Breakpoint podcast. Thanks for having me. What makes the trans movement a cult? |
| 1:18.4 | The title of your article and your review of this first book is that the transgender movement |
| 1:24.6 | has become cult-like. Why that comparison? What are you getting at there? |
| 1:28.9 | So, first of all, I'd recommend Abigail Schreier's book to anyone who's interested in this subject. |
| 1:33.3 | But a number of things really stuck out in her description of what's been going on lately. |
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