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🗓️ 27 June 2023
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Megan Phelps-Roper was brought up in one of the most hated sects of American Christianity – the Westborough Baptist Church. Now, she sits down with the woman at the centre of an equally vicious firestorm, J.K. Rowling, in a new podcast from The Free Press. Josh and Megan reflect on the trans wars, religion, and the power of the mob.
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0:00.0 | Giday, humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas and what ideas will be more |
0:07.1 | dangerous than a trans woman who, and yeah, I've already gone there. See, that's it. That is, |
0:13.7 | I've already said the word, the word has been triggered. Sound the alarms, call in the hounds, storm the castle. |
0:22.9 | The T-word has been... |
0:24.5 | Will we ever call it the T-word? |
0:25.8 | I could imagine a day when we call it the T-word. |
0:28.9 | There are other words that I won't name, obviously, for obvious reasons, such as losing my job, |
0:34.3 | that you can't say. |
0:36.3 | I wonder if someday we'll say. |
0:37.7 | Remember when we used to use the T word to differentiate between different types of women, |
0:42.6 | but they're all women now. |
0:45.2 | We don't need to differentiate between them just because of the nature of their privates. |
0:48.7 | But now it's 2023, so I think I'm allowed to say, |
0:51.8 | should a trans woman who was convicted of sexual violence when she was identified as male, right, sexual violence against women in the body of a man that she was, but she wasn't a man, obviously, because she was a trans woman inside all along, but she had the physiology of a man, when she was a male rapist, not a male, but in the body, |
1:14.1 | when she was a woman inside the body of a male style, you know, physiology, and that male style |
1:22.4 | physiology was raping women, biological women, then after that biological physical male who's actually |
1:31.5 | a woman inside becomes a woman like a chrysalis butterfly out of a, you know, into a new realm, |
1:37.9 | then should that transgender woman, if she hasn't had any biological changes done to her, after she's been convicted |
1:47.6 | of sexual violence and is sent to prison, go to a female prison. See, that was an easy, see, |
1:54.4 | it's so much easier now, isn't it? We used to just, we used to get so tied up and caught up and |
1:59.4 | tangled in so many confusing details about biological sex |
2:03.2 | when there was this dogma of the biological binary of men and women. |
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