Re: The Daily Wire's Michael Knowles: "Not only can we stop people from being transgender, nobody can be transgender"

pyotr filipivich <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Duque Mantee wrote
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>> All queers should be locked up in sanitariums away from children.

Knowles: “There is, of course, no such thing as the trans community, 
ultimately, because the anthropology of transgenderism is false. So, the 
very notion of the trans community is a deception.”

MICHAEL KNOWLES (HOST): I don't have negative feelings toward the trans 
community. I have only positive feelings toward the trans community, such 
as it is. There is, of course, no such thing as the trans community, 
ultimately, because the anthropology of transgenderism is false. So, the 
very notion of the trans community is a deception. There are people who 
are troubled and who -- I think even the most pro-transgenderism person 
out there will admit something's a little bit off, right? If you're a man 
and you're very anxious and upset because you think that you're a woman. 
And so what I would endeavor to do is to help those people to overcome 
their delusions. And what the pro-transgenderism people want to do is to 
affirm them in their delusions. So, who is more helpful to the transgender 
community? Who would seem to have more positive feelings for the 
transgender community? I think it's pretty clear.

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Not only can we stop people from being transgender, nobody can be 
transgender because it's not a real category of being. It's not a real 
thing. That's what the debate's over. So are you saying we can't stop 
people from being confused? Well, we can discourage people from being 
confused. Just as now our system of education and conversion therapy tries 
to convince confused children that they really are the opposite sex, so 
too we could return to a system of proper education and psychological 
therapy and spiritual formation that gives you a correct metaphysics which 
tells you that, actually, boys are boys and girls are girls. And you can't 
change because your gender is an inseparable accident of the individual 
present as long as the individual exists. That's what I would do. So -- 
and you can do that. And even for the people who insist upon this 
delusion, you can tell them, as we did until just a few years ago, well, 
okay, you might be deluded in your own mind, sir, but you're not allowed 
to use the women's bathroom or play on the women's sports team or take 
women's jobs or any of the rest of it.

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You're seeing an explosion in the rate of transgender identification, an 
absolute explosion of it, to the point that now one in five Zoomers 
identifies as LGBT. You're seeing an explosion, especially among young 
people. So you can't say, if you return to policies from before 2015, 
that's not going to change the number of transgender identifying people. 
Of course it will. Of course it will. That's just how government -- that's 
how law and culture and custom works, is when you incentivize certain 
behaviors, you get more of that behavior. When you disincentivize certain 
behavior, you get less of it. When you teach and encourage certain ideas, 
you get a spreading of those ideas. When you teach truth that contradicts 
bad ideas, you get less of the bad ideas. That's just how it works.

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