tucker: but at least they admitted it was about selling cigarettes. facebook doesn t say we support big pharma. they dress it up self-righteously in misinformation honest. why not be honest about it. because it sounds they claim to be following the science and that s what they hide behind. what they are actually doing is they don t want a scientific debate because there is a lot of scientific evidence that suggests these policies have been mistakes and they don t want to admit they are wrong or debate the science so they just try to make up these excuses to do it. it s scary because they control so much of the information that goes out there. they are censoring information much more effectively than the government could under the guise of fact checking when in fact they are fact blocking. tucker: is this making everyone more or less likely to believe them going forward, do you think? i think now it s just dividing us into these camps where you can t trust what you see on face
tucker: tucker: apparently one of the best schools in new york city and in the country and has been for a hundred years, it s an all girls school, very few people know what happens there but if you live on the upper eastside, you want your child to get in because it s a big deal if they do. what goes on there? in april we got a glimpse, a parent sent a letter to every other parent at the school. it was articulate and specific. in the letter he called on the other parents to fight back against what their girls were learning in school. if you haven t read it you should read it because it s a remarkable it s a remarkable essay. it stand alone actually. a new op ed he describes the reaction. i ve received emails from parents expressing devastation that their kids as young as 5 are coming home from school after being taught to feel guilty solely because of the
so this thought that i had that god made a mistake and i was a girl, my conditions, everything around me, was feeding into this thought and confirming it. so when i went through therapy, the therapist didn t ask why didn t i feel secure, significant, or accepted as a kid? they proceeded to affirm that i had gender dysphoria because that s what i was telling them. and i was convinced of it. and so, they didn t dive into the issues, to the root cause, and help me to figure out what was going on and to overcome my issues. i was okay as a boy. the road i went down was really, really bad, and, boy, i wish, i wish i had the help at that time to figure life out before all of that money i spent. tucker: yes. just take this drug, have this mastectomy, you re exactly right. that s a powerful statement.
helped me. he helped me find my way back. tucker: what would you say to parents who are bewildered and upset when their children came to them and say i think i m in the wrong body, i want to chang my sex. how would you advise parents to handle that with their children? i would advise them, the parent and the children, to seek help. i was in therapy for seven years, and the going phrase that i hear is that we have to be sensitive and we have to give gender affirming therapy. the therapist failed me because i didn t need gender affirming. i needed to dig down to the root of my problems that i had when i was a kid. as a kid, i had a speech impediment, i was really skinny. i had a learning disability. i really didn t fit in with the boys at all.
tucker: tucker: it was a year ago today that george floyd died in minneapolis, and america changed. well, today, the secretary of state tony blinken, the man who is supposed to make america s case to the world but at the same time hates america, marked the anniversary by declaring that george floyd died because you re racist. for the united states to be a credible force for human rights around the world we have to face the realities of racism and hatred here at home. we can t sweep our shortcomings under the rug or pretend they don t exist. we need to face them openly and honestly. even if that s ugly. even if that s painful. that s how we live up to our