As I trans woman I have to tell you how grateful I am that you did this video. We do not have a choice in who we are. Thank you for sharing this info. I’m not a Christian but so many use Christianity and the bible as an excuse for their hatred, like Johnson, while ignoring much of what it actually says
You don't need scripture to know the sex differences between male and female. I don't know why you hate women so much, it is weird. Why don't you respect their right to safety, privacy and dignity? Is the narcissism so deep that you have no empathy for other human beings?
@@Lacey13-i3b Congrats on being yet another uneducated plebeian who does not understand that neither sex or gender are binaries, you must have so much empathy for other human beings given that you deny their existence and whine about how they totally hate women simply based on their gender identity; talk about narcissism lmfao.
Thank you so much. I discovered your channel lately I am so very grateful I did. For reference, I am a fifty year old transwoman. About halfway through this I started crying and I realised that it's so very rare that I hear anyone speaking in humanising language about my community (and, by extension, me). Thank you for being a wonderful ally. Sending you all the best 💕
What's surprising to me is till this day we as humans can't see that we have the capacity to create, mold, and become whoever the fuck we want..as long as we aren't harming anyone.
We are still struggling with the truth. All humans are human, and race doesn't mean much of anything other than geographic heritage.. culture and race are different
The moment Speaker Johnson mentioned scripture my thought was "Scripture was written over a thousand years ago by people who knew far less about our bodies are than some of us do today."
@@Lacey13-i3bEvolutionary biology does not necessarily relate to sex changes. Modern science has conducted studies that show a trans person's brain is more similar to their gender than their sex. It's not everyone else's fault your understanding of science and biology is the same as an elementary school child's.
I would also like to point out that, in addition to directly, actively, and intentionally harming trans men and women, these bathroom bills and the underlying transphobia of people pushing for them and electing people to push them harms anyone who does not meet an incredibly specific concept of performative gender. This negatively affects cisgender women who do not conform to gendered stereotypes, POC, etc.
Agreed. There has already been more than one example of a cisgender man following a cisgender women into the women's bathroom (without a hint of irony) to confront her because he mistakenly identified her as transgender. Nobody has ended up better off from the fear mongering and discrimination.
See Algerian Boxer Imane Khelif for case in point from just this year alone. She's definitely not the only one, but there's *_plenty_* of news coverage about her case.
Exactly. I have a pixie cut, where sneakers with a vintage men's blazer that I love. Will I be allowed to go to the women's bathroom?? I was born and identify as cis female....
I’m worried it would put far more cis women in harm’s way than there are trans women. And the unhinged way people come at people they assume are trans is also revealing, like elected officials outing cis girls as trans igniting community outrage and threats. Or calling bomb threats to children’s hospitals to prevent operations that aren’t even being performed. Putting all the children in the hospital at risk.
@torreyintahoe did you even watch this video? Or do you just spout nonsense that the majority of biologists, medical doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, anthropologists, sociologists, and just plain empathetic people consider factually wrong?
@@ZosoLU Yes I did and none of those people agree with you. The only "scientist" who would agree with you is an ideologically motivated pseudo scientist.
@@ZosoLU The majority of health care providers agree with me, not you or Dan. The only ones who do agree with him are the ideologically motivated pseudo scientists. What I'm saying is objectively true. What you're stating is demonstrably false.
You did a good job with this one, but I feel the need to correct you, the goal isn't to make trans women unsafe in women's bathrooms, it's to make trans women unsafe, period. I have no doubt you would agree with that, I just felt your wording was a bit lacking.
The people complaining about trans people in a certain restroom over "safety" also gloss over the fact that the ostensibly unsafe people are men, who if they wanted to hurt anyone, probably would ignore any laws about who can use what bathroom just like they'd be ignoring the laws about hurting other people.
So you would ignore a woman's long term trauma from males, to cater to trans women. Even as a supportor, I would suggest building a different restroom for them. And actually, a few years ago, a male pretended to be trans and harassed girls in school. It's not an attack towards you, it's a safety measure.
Thanks, Dan. Your willingness to take a stance in favor of morality in addition to your ongoing battle against harmful dogma is uplifting. I needed this today.
@@NWPaul72 On the conservative discourse strategy of "I'm rubber; you're glue." IOW, whatever take down is applied to conservatives is simply used automatically on whoever is making the take down.
WooHoo! Thanks for saying it! I am much cheered! I knew about Judith Butler's work, and am a 77 year old non-binary grandma, and I really enjoyed the clarity.
given the attitude of the GOP toward prisoners and the fact that the 13th has a prisoner exception for the "no slaves" rule, i think he is fine with owning AMERICANS as slaves.
He wants it both ways. What does a policy that respects people look like to him that isn't the same as one that doesn't? He spoke just own his bigotry.
@@kayallen7603 Well he's not pandering. Just because he doesn't wanna talk to your "pet dinosaur" doesn't make him disrespectful. People aren't pissed because he's disrespectful they're pissed because he won't comply.
Tysm for this. I'm a transsexual/transgender Christian and have often found engaging with my faith difficult since coming out, as most communions where I am from can be quite hostile (or, at the very least, dismissive) towards us. Even in my private practice, it has been hard to accept myself as many of my religious teachings growing up were at odds with who I really was, and your videos (though definitely not just this one) have helped me so much and have motivated me to get back into scripture.
Have you seen Dr McClellan's video on the different genders in ancient Judaism? There's a reason most synagogues are lgbtq inclusive. Our rabbi is transgender.
Gender as expression is just that. Expression. A persons biology is just that. How a person chooses to express that is up to them. There are as many genders as there are people. In my congregation we have different conversations about gender and expression individually and then what that means for the kingdom and how we reconcile these. I'm glad to see that this part of your life didn't cause you to leave the kingdom. God bless.
@@sasoriko you are confusing gender and gender expression. Most people do. Gender is immutable and is something you are born with. Gender expression is about what people do or how they dress according to their gender. Gender expression is a social construct.
@@angelawossname That is certainly not what Dan just covered well in his video. What he clearly stated was this, "Sex and gender are two different things. Gender is a conceptual category; a social construct that is tied to biological sex in a variety of different ways, but is negotiable. Which is the whole reason you have conservative people talking about what it means to be a 'real man', or a 'real woman'. They recognize that being a man and being a woman is performative. It does not come down to biology."
you can treat people with dignity and acknowledge they are a human being with rights even while pointing out they are hate/fear driven monsters misusing the word of god for their own gain
As a non-binary person with religious trauma because of this topic and related 2SLGBTQIA+ reasons, I cannot tell you how much this means to me. My understanding of Jesus is so vastly different from most Christians, I had to leave the church behind. Hearing conservatives say things like "Jesus is too woke" just makes my brain spin. I had the entire Bible memorized by 11, and attended church twice a week and all of my friends were from church and I didn't do secular girl scouts, but the Pentecostal girl scouts, attended church camp in the summers. I wanted to be a youth minister for at least 8 years, but once I got rejected for my queerness, it broke my heart. I could not reconcile the idea that something as pure as love could be _wrong_. I know there's a lot of things mistaken for *love* in these modern times, but what I feel for my partner is the truest, purest love I've felt outside of that for my son. We've been together for nearly 15 years, and my stepdad told me because we are both AFAB, I'll never understand "true love".
Thank you so much for this. This is exactly right. 💜 And after all these years of their paranoia, they still have no examples of trans people attacking others in restrooms, but dozens examples of the opposite, of trans people being victims thanks to all this fear mongering and blood libel against us. Getting this message out is so important right now, thank you again.
"For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others-and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”
That is why the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches LGBT members to keep the law of chastity and remain single and celibate if they not married to anyone of the opposite sex. So yes LGBT have to remain single and celibate if they are are unable to marry the opposite sex.
Just to add on at 2:35 -- and then sometimes AFTER birth with more hormonal changes ahead, sex STILL isn't evident. This is exactly the kind of messy genotypal/phenotypal phenomena one expects with evolutionary hereditary and natural selection.
We're talking about social constructs and mental illness, not biology. Children who think they are a cat vs a child born with a tail are very different things.
@@apachewraiththe social constructs under discussion intersect with biology rather profoundly, wouldn't you say? I think the notion of biological gender selection might be relevant to the topic.
@@apachewraithIs this some Monty Python hate I smell? How could you hate (what I am assuming is) _Monty Python and the Holy Grail?_ The trans character you want to seethe at is in _Life of Brian!_ 😂
When politics and policy revolve so much around what makes some people feel icky or uncomfy and it's accepted behaviour; we , humanity as a whole, need to mature a lot before we can have anything resembling functioning democracies.
This is partly because of capitalism and the ultra wealthy. The capital class pour so much money into the governing bodies to make sure they serve their interests rather than creating a stable and healthy Society and these politicians know they have nothing to run on so they drum up fear and division over stupid crap to draw attention away from all the evil economic crap they keep pulling to further enrich the already rich.
also it is stunningly amazing to me that a person claiming to be a bible read Christian defends a convicted felon, rapist and serial wife cheater.....wtf?
Why Speaker Johnson thinks most Americans care what "the scriptures" teach is beyond me. If you don't want biological men in the biological women's bathroom, just say it!!! Be brave and don't hide behind the bible. That's the most irritating part to me, the cowardice.
I doubt they think it's cowardice, they probably believe that's an appeal to authority. Of course, they think they're very brave when they say something controversial from behind bullet-proof glass, addressing a gathering of their followers.
At the beginning of every video he should list his degrees, and what fields they are in. I saw a very short video which claims that McClellan is not a credentialed scholar, merely an activist. Well, you can be an activist and still speak accurately on a topic. I have looked up McClellan's bio. He has the receipts, education wise. As far as being an activist, so what? Is that now, per se, a suspect position? Better we should be apathetic? He is absolutely dead on accurate about the identity politics of white Christian nationalists, aka maga.
Well said Dan. I cant believe how some people today are so medieval in their thinking but we see them wave their holy books as justification for whatever they want. Fundamentalists always do that, often as they oppress or kill people. Religious fanatics might not like it but humans are animals. And in the animals kingdom, sexual designation is fluid. Some species change their sex as they grow, some even change en-mass if there is a lack of males or females, or in response to their environment. To believe these definitions are fixed is to be ignorant of the facts. But when did religious people ever care about facts or truth?
Alligators are one of my favorites. Their biological sex is largely dependent on the heat of the nest. Mama alligators have carefully pack the dried reeds/plants and mud to ensure different parts of the nest are different temperatures and colder than seasonal temperatures can lead to too many males and vice-versa. These are creatures that predate modern humans by over 30 million years. Our binary is not nature's binary.
The point you’re making is such an important one. Being part of the LGBT community it has become more than apparent that gay,lesbian and transgender people are far more at risk from the general population than we ever have been to them. Unfortunately I can never see this changing and if anything I think things are getting and going to get worse for the Gay! Lesbian and especially trans community. ☃️
"Biological male" is a term used by people who don't really understand biology. Aside from the genetics (and the 'Y'-chromosome has been degrading since it initially evolved some 166 million years ago in mammals, and has already disappeared entirely from some mammalian species, and is expected to be lost in humans in around 6 million years); sexual dimorphism has a number of developmental forks, each one of which can go the other way (and the default is 'female'). So there is a fairly broad continuum with significant overlap between 'male' and 'female' - including what one finds attractive and traits like physical strength, endurance, intelligence (if that is truly a single, measurable trait, which I am not entirely convinced is the case), etc. I am, frankly, tired of people who are ignorant of any biology they did not learn in their 9th grade health class make pronouncements on what 'biology' has to say about it.
That's because they're using biology to justify role play, and calling it a spectrum. Just because someone is born with six fingers doesn't mean my five fingers are six because I say so. And the idea that I could force you at gunpoint to agree is fucking mind-blowing 🤦♂️
@@apachewraithare you more masculine than a man you know? Is anyone more masculine than you? You deny that there's a spectrum between Brad Pitt and Josh Gad? Gfy, you're not arguing in good faith, you're trying to own a lib. You shoulda brought more.
@@apachewraith If you think transgender people believe they physically have body parts that they don’t, then I have some great news: that’s not true! Like, at all! It seems you have simply been misinformed about what being transgender is like. No worries, misunderstandings happen to the best of us
@@apachewraith Intersex conditions are absolutely and objectively a spectrum. Moreover, comparing trans and cis people's brain scans shows that a brain in a body that was designated one sex at birth can function like a typical brain in a body that was designated the "opposite" sex at birth, and such a "cross-sex" brain tends to coincide with that person identifying as trans. Did God make several million mistakes everywhere on Earth, or is biological evolution and individual development a fundamentally imprecise process?
I've been told I am actually an abomination before God because I have no faith in that imaginary being. He doesn't believe in me, why should I believe in Him?
@CaptainCanuck68 i am so sorry. 🫂 I am an Evangelical Lutheran married to an Atheist. I have great respect for my husband and his beliefs (or lack thereof), just as he has for mine. It is unacceptable to hate because someone is different.
1. Love the Lord thy God with all your heart, soul & mind. 2. Love one another as I have loved you. 3. Treat others the way you wish to be treated. 4. FLUSH everything else. AMEN.
This is a problem I point out every once in a while when someone (usually a Christian guy) asks, “What is a woman?” They should ask “What is a man” first before they go on to more advanced questions. That “man” argument has been going on globally for millennia. Philosophers have debated this problem to the point where you have some cultures having coming-of-age rituals where, if you don’t pass them…or if you avoid them altogether…you’re considered not a man but still a boy (basically calling you feminine without calling you feminine). Then there are discussions on what behavior and characteristics males are supposed to have to be seen as “not a woman,” or worse, “a girl,” or anything close to being feminine and worthy of criticism…because they’re “beta” or weak. Whatever the definition is of a man is held up to a perceived ideal of “manliness” that a guy is supposed to have in order to be respected by other men, and that perspective changes from culture to culture and from time to time. And there’s no universal agreement on what a man is besides not behaving in a way that is seen as weak…a characteristic that only belongs to females. But there’s not even a consensus on what makes someone weak, unmanly, and despised by the recognized ruling elite. Even whole societies criticize each other’s men for not living up to their standards. Whatever it is, there’s a lot of effort put into distancing males from anything regarded as feminine and trying to make it into the superior class of respectable human beings. But nobody can definitively decide what a man is…beyond them not being a woman…which btw, whatever that is. It’s a very nebulous subject. I’m now wondering if the definition isn’t “what is a man” (which in almost every place and time is the ideal) as much as “what isn’t a woman.” If these guys can’t clarify what a man is after all this time, they’re not qualified to ask the next question. They’re just acting like privileged narcissists. Ask “what is a man” first before asking “what is a woman.” Don’t get ahead of yourself or you’ll look uneducated.
I've worked professional skills jobs part time and we had bathrooms like we have at home, in a VERY RED state. Nobody gave a shyte..well they did..but nobody cared!
I recall that in the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus offers to make Mary a man and says that every woman who makes herself male will enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Thank you for addressing this subject in such a clear, logical, and humane manner. As a nonbinary person who presents as more masculine in spite of the fact that I was assigned female at birth, I have faced a lifetime of bigotry. For me to conform with what society thinks of as feminine would be extremely uncomfortable to the point of being emotional torture. This is not a choice. I have known this about myself since i was in kindergarten. For people who accuse us of pretending to be the something we are not, we are actually being honest about who we are. Since we are not harming anyone, we should be given the space to do that, same as everyone else. As for all this drama about bathrooms, we have been sharing public bathrooms and other communal facilities with cisgender people since the beginning of time, with a vanishingly small number of incidents. We are not the problem, we just want to use these facilitiesfor their designatedpurpose. I agree with your assertion that the people who have their panties in a bunch over this need to grow the hell up. This is being stirred up by certain individuals who are trying to distract the public from the fact that they are undermining our democracy and trying to install an authoritarian government. This needs to stop before the freedom that is the birthright of all Americans is ripped to shreds.
Never heard it outlined as accurately as you have just done. My guideline has always been: gender =man/woman= construct, sex = male/female = biology, and biology is never black/white. Keeps it clear for me. Love the shirt.
He's at farthest within on two degrees of separation from people who've said stuff that was basically apologism for slavery. (The link being Answers in Genesis, which started as a creationist organization that also dabbled in right-wing culture war stuff, but is now more of a Christian Nationalist organization that also promotes creationism.)
Thank you so much for this video. You help all of us to become more informed. I wish we truly were a secular nation. If we were, I don’t think any of this would be an issue.
"A man is a man, and a woman is a woman", in a sense, he is mostly correct, but only because his understanding of those words are incorrect. Gender Identity is something that exists in the mind, not between someone's legs. A transgender man is a man, and a transgender woman is a woman. It may have taken them a bit longer to figure that out because of sociatal pressures trying to dictate to them who they are based on what they were born with between their legs, but they didn't "become" a man or a woman, they always were one between their ears. Transitioning just helps align the body with the mind.
Out of interest, does Galatians 3 Verse 28-29 serve the purpose it appears to in this context? Or would it simply be a convenient misunderstanding of a metaphor? To whit [28] There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. [29] And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
Well said. Your analysis was flawless. What Rep. Mace said was deplorable. She suggested it was unsafe for women to share a bathroom with a trans woman - as if they're all sexual predators. She should have been formally censored for implying that.
First of all, he shouldn't be making his personal religious beliefs into law or rules. Not everyone believes as he does. Lastly, hasn't she fully transitioned? What is their problem?
@mikeymullins5305 I absolutely agree. I didn't expound on my comment and I'm sorry. My point was that she is fully transitioned yet they want her to use a men's bathroom. I would think that since she is fully transitioned, that even they shouldn't have a problem with her. But, their hate overrides everything.
I went to Egypt for almost a month as a tourist. Public bathrooms there don’t supply TP. In every Ladies’ room I visited while there was a male offering facial tissue for a tip. The males were as young as eight, as old as eighty. Never a problem, no issues.
I am asexual, I have no interest in sex whatsoever. Do whatever you like with the information, I honestly have no respect for anyone who questions that.
Hmmm. At least the guy is honest. There must be another way to acknowledge the plight of the preferentially ambiguous than asking the world to lie to them. That should be a personal choice they reserve for themselves. No love is lost in that.
gender is a social construct under the secular and international study of humans, so yes it is dynamic under different contexts very difficult topic for lesser educated english speakers to understand if they do not have a strong STEM background
Thank you for this. It is such a struggle to see Christians assert these binary or dichotomous worldviews based on the Bible, when it takes such effort to combat it, because they often just shut their ears when you start lightly pushing back.
As a student of biology and anthropology, and a Christian trying to rediscover God - there's actually a lot of support for a spectrum of phenotypic gender presentation in its connection to sex. By that I mean, even biologically its not as simple as 'xy male and xx female' all the time. Essentially, all the biological characteristics we can see and associate with an individuals sex-determining chromosomes, are dependent on a series of hormone relays that tell the body how to develop what part and when and where to do it. Whenever hormones are interrupted or work a little differently than they should, it'll affect the physical function and appearance of a lot of these characteristics. It's not as though having the two x chromosomes automatically makes every cell in your body know you must be a "woman", it simply means that certain pathways get activated, which results in certain hormones being secreted, which results in certain body parts developing according to those hormones. Even trying to reduce human gender to the seemingly binary nature chromosomes reveals that it's still very complicated and nothing fits easily into two distinct categories.
I don't trust people who spend a lot of time talking about who is in what bathrooms, especially children's bathrooms, like in a middle school. These creepers spend a not-insignificant portion of their time talking about who is pooping where, and that's just not ok. As long as you're not hurting anyone in the bathroom, and your aim is true, I don't care. As for people being hurt, it seems to be the good Christians who are doing the hurting.
@@inwyrdn3691 but that's not what is happening. Boys are attacking girls in the restrooms. Physically and sexually assaulting them and most of the time it's not even being reported. Because they are afraid of being labeled some type of phobic
@emersonb.5399 I mean sure but you can just look it up yourself. ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A teenager and her parents have filed a $30 million lawsuit against a northern Virginia school system, saying the district failed to adequately investigate and tried to cover up her sexual assault by a male student in a high school bathroom. He was wearing a skirt so that means it's ok to enter into a female safe space I guess..?
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A teenager and her parents have filed a $30 million lawsuit against a northern Virginia school system, saying the district failed to adequately investigate and tried to cover up her sexual assault by a male student in a high school bathroom.
@@gabbygood6813 I just looked that up and according to AP News the perpetrator used male pronouns so it doesn't seem like he was a trans girl. Sexual assaults do occur in bathrooms, no one is denying that, but that was a problem long before there were any concerns about trans people.
This is one of the weirder parts of Christianity to me. I'm Jewish, and Judaism recognizes six sexes, and doesn't have much to say about gender at all. Also, Joseph's beautiful "coat" is more probably a dress. The bit in Scripture about not wearing the clothing of the other gender is pretty clearly understood in the context of people trying to disguise themselves in order to enter places forbidden to their gender - men going into the women's baths and the like. I wonder if Mike Johnson could tell me if a tumtum is a man or a woman?
Also Jewish, but these days I am secular. Some of my friends aren't, though, so I know our new local rabbi is transgender. I never had any issues when I did attend, and I'm gay.
My experience is discussing this with transphobic people is they are not interested in facts. They will continue to maintain that there is a perfect correlation between biological (genetic) sex and gender identity even AFTER they are know about Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (and other conditions). It is a textbook example of not letting the facts get in the way of your prejudices.
One of the cultural shocks I got when I was stationed in Italy in the late 60s was at a bar one night. I went to use the restroom which consisted of a small room with a sink and a small room with a large basin in the floor with two raised areas in the middle to place your feet to squat. That was a minor shock, but not a big deal. When I came out to wash my hands I was shocked to find a barmaid using the sink. That’s when I learned a lot of the public restrooms were open to both sexes.
You reference the Matthew Eunuch verse a lot. I was told the translation for eunuch could mean anyone who did not have sex with women. Hence made by man, means castrated, but for god is just celibacy, and from the womb means men who weren’t attracted to women. Even if this is only mildly plausible, it’s a great negotiation to claim Jesus was ok with gay men.
"Even if this is only mildly plausible, it’s a great negotiation to claim Jesus was ok with gay men." And why is this a good thing? Why are bad arguments a good response to bad arguments? All readings made up from nothing deserve the same contempt.
@ I’m a hundred percent atheist to Yahweh, El, Allah, Jesus as a deity etc. and if I thought there was a viable, non violent way of eliminating dogmatic religions from the world, I’d be all for it. There isn’t, not in several lifetimes if ever, at this point. Since all religions are negotiated from text, a renegotiation in favor of tolerance and acceptance beats the hell out of the current model. It’s just pragmatism in a world deluded by 1000s of years of mythology being portrayed as the single most important “fact” to the majority or the population, as a harm reduction strategy.
@@docmychedelic9153 Don't agree with any of this, and religions are not "negotiated from text", text is created to support religion. You're lies are not better than their lies, even of you think the outcome might be better. It's still just lies. There's no good reason to believe that Jesus ever even existed, in that context hopefully you can see how ridiculous it is for you to propose some silly justification for claiming what imaginary Jesus believed. It will not get the respect of critical thinkers and it will never convince the hateful. A stupid lie that produces a good outcome is why we have religions in the first place. If you'd change how you view this, maybe you could realize that there are "viable, non-violent ways" after all.
@ He does often point out his disagreement with some scholarly opinions. As much as I would like to disagree with his take on the bitter water verse, I don’t. He does always state, some scholars do disagree. What I’ve heard could be completely wrong but if indeed the original word was used to describe men who weren’t attracted to women, in Roman law at the time, as was claimed , then it absolutely is something that could be debated. Since it’s all literature and is misinterpreted constantly by those seeking to take rights from people, even if it’s completely false, it would be no different than the complete inanity claimed by Christians every single day, just with the intent of inclusion instead of demonizing.
As a country, we need to stop conflating the words sex and gender. “Sex” is the male or female bits, and “gender” is the way one acts socially, sexually, culturally, etc. “Sex” can’t change naturally, but only by way of surgery. “Gender” can and does change over the course of life. For example, many children are some level of gender neutral until 3 or 4, then develop a gender that can last until puberty, or change again. Many little girls are what we call Tomboys, which is a masculine gender, and the develop a more feminine gender at puberty... all while being of the female sex.
@@TheDanEdwards my gender isn’t just whatever I say it is either Can I identify as beautiful? Can I choose the identify as being funny or as being intelligent? Or are those objective qualities that the rest of society has the judge? Why is gender a special exception?
@ our identities, everything about us is negotiated with society With other human beings Nothing about me or you can just be asserted with words . I can’t just assert “ I’m intelligent “ “ I’m handsome “ I’m a woman “ “ I have blue eyes “ and expect everyone else to agree with me That would be insane Gender identity is not some weird lone exception to this rule . This is an intellectual fad that can’t stand against even the slightest scrutiny
As I trans woman I have to tell you how grateful I am that you did this video. We do not have a choice in who we are. Thank you for sharing this info. I’m not a Christian but so many use Christianity and the bible as an excuse for their hatred, like Johnson, while ignoring much of what it actually says
You don't need scripture to know the sex differences between male and female. I don't know why you hate women so much, it is weird. Why don't you respect their right to safety, privacy and dignity? Is the narcissism so deep that you have no empathy for other human beings?
I am not a Christian, but I don't want you or your Johnson in a locker room with my daughter. Capiche?
@@Lacey13-i3b Congrats on being yet another uneducated plebeian who does not understand that neither sex or gender are binaries, you must have so much empathy for other human beings given that you deny their existence and whine about how they totally hate women simply based on their gender identity; talk about narcissism lmfao.
Thank you so much. I discovered your channel lately I am so very grateful I did. For reference, I am a fifty year old transwoman. About halfway through this I started crying and I realised that it's so very rare that I hear anyone speaking in humanising language about my community (and, by extension, me). Thank you for being a wonderful ally. Sending you all the best 💕
I love Dan for many reasons but one is the powerful way he stands up against people weaponizing Scripture.
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@@OldMotherLogome too.😊
okay, dude
I see you, sister. Our existence is resistance.
What's surprising to me is till this day we as humans can't see that we have the capacity to create, mold, and become whoever the fuck we want..as long as we aren't harming anyone.
We are still struggling with the truth. All humans are human, and race doesn't mean much of anything other than geographic heritage.. culture and race are different
The moment Speaker Johnson mentioned scripture my thought was "Scripture was written over a thousand years ago by people who knew far less about our bodies are than some of us do today."
You don't need to reference scripture to know there are sex differences. Read some evolutionary biology.
@@Lacey13-i3bI'm assuming you didn't watch the video. Either that, or you didn't understand it.
@@daveed1750 Assume whatever yo want, but if you think I did not understand it, say why. You can't, you are just a bully. lol
@@Lacey13-i3bEvolutionary biology does not necessarily relate to sex changes. Modern science has conducted studies that show a trans person's brain is more similar to their gender than their sex. It's not everyone else's fault your understanding of science and biology is the same as an elementary school child's.
@@Lacey13-i3b Can you refer me to the evolutionary biology texts that you read? I’m very interested to see what they say about gender
I would also like to point out that, in addition to directly, actively, and intentionally harming trans men and women, these bathroom bills and the underlying transphobia of people pushing for them and electing people to push them harms anyone who does not meet an incredibly specific concept of performative gender. This negatively affects cisgender women who do not conform to gendered stereotypes, POC, etc.
Agreed. There has already been more than one example of a cisgender man following a cisgender women into the women's bathroom (without a hint of irony) to confront her because he mistakenly identified her as transgender. Nobody has ended up better off from the fear mongering and discrimination.
See Algerian Boxer Imane Khelif for case in point from just this year alone. She's definitely not the only one, but there's *_plenty_* of news coverage about her case.
I also am assigned female at birth, not on hormones at all, and have more facial hair than a lot of 15 year old cis boys.
Exactly. I have a pixie cut, where sneakers with a vintage men's blazer that I love. Will I be allowed to go to the women's bathroom?? I was born and identify as cis female....
I’m worried it would put far more cis women in harm’s way than there are trans women.
And the unhinged way people come at people they assume are trans is also revealing, like elected officials outing cis girls as trans igniting community outrage and threats. Or calling bomb threats to children’s hospitals to prevent operations that aren’t even being performed. Putting all the children in the hospital at risk.
I feel so bad for Sarah McBride having to deal with these horrible people
Why? He's a man who wants to use the women's bathroom.
Unfortunately, although she would become accustomed to this throughout her life, it would still hurt a lot.
@torreyintahoe did you even watch this video? Or do you just spout nonsense that the majority of biologists, medical doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, anthropologists, sociologists, and just plain empathetic people consider factually wrong?
@@ZosoLU Yes I did and none of those people agree with you. The only "scientist" who would agree with you is an ideologically motivated pseudo scientist.
@@ZosoLU The majority of health care providers agree with me, not you or Dan. The only ones who do agree with him are the ideologically motivated pseudo scientists. What I'm saying is objectively true. What you're stating is demonstrably false.
You did a good job with this one, but I feel the need to correct you, the goal isn't to make trans women unsafe in women's bathrooms, it's to make trans women unsafe, period.
I have no doubt you would agree with that, I just felt your wording was a bit lacking.
Well said!
This also has the unintended effect of endangering anyone who doesn't conform exactly to expected gender norms.
True. If you can't safely use a public bathroom, you can't safely exist in public
Why do transwomen need to be in female spaces? Why do they need to violate the rights of women and girls? Tremaine Carroll. google.
@@lisafish1449The type of people who make these rules are okay with that, quite happy about it, in fact.
The people complaining about trans people in a certain restroom over "safety" also gloss over the fact that the ostensibly unsafe people are men, who if they wanted to hurt anyone, probably would ignore any laws about who can use what bathroom just like they'd be ignoring the laws about hurting other people.
So you would ignore a woman's long term trauma from males, to cater to trans women. Even as a supportor, I would suggest building a different restroom for them. And actually, a few years ago, a male pretended to be trans and harassed girls in school. It's not an attack towards you, it's a safety measure.
Thanks, Dan. Your willingness to take a stance in favor of morality in addition to your ongoing battle against harmful dogma is uplifting. I needed this today.
What he's espousing is dogma.
@ Thanks for your input
@@torreyintahoehow so?
@@NWPaul72 He is promoting a false belief that contradicts reality because it's a requirement of his post modernist identity politics.
@@NWPaul72 On the conservative discourse strategy of "I'm rubber; you're glue." IOW, whatever take down is applied to conservatives is simply used automatically on whoever is making the take down.
WooHoo! Thanks for saying it! I am much cheered! I knew about Judith Butler's work, and am a 77 year old non-binary grandma, and I really enjoyed the clarity.
I wouldn’t be too sure that Speaker Johnson isn’t okay with owning foreigners as slaves. I’d say the jury is still out on that one.
given the attitude of the GOP toward prisoners and the fact that the 13th has a prisoner exception for the "no slaves" rule, i think he is fine with owning AMERICANS as slaves.
Came to this comment section to say exactly this
@@MetaphorUB Why because he stated a fact?
@@torreyintahoe He actually stated an actual fact? When? Which one?
@@torreyintahoeNo, what he presented was an opinion. He clearly has no idea what constitutes a fact.
And neither do you.
Damn. I am loving this "grow. the hell. up." series! 🙏🏼🙌🏼👍🏼👏🏼
And he, by having this ideology, is NOT treating all people with dignity and respect.
I wonder if he'd even know what those are if they kicked him in the behind.
Thank you! The only folks he "respects" are those that agree with him on everything.
@kayallen7603, Try not to trip over your own hypocrisy, kay. It could be a long fall.
He wants it both ways. What does a policy that respects people look like to him that isn't the same as one that doesn't? He spoke just own his bigotry.
@@kayallen7603 Well he's not pandering. Just because he doesn't wanna talk to your "pet dinosaur" doesn't make him disrespectful. People aren't pissed because he's disrespectful they're pissed because he won't comply.
Nothing since the election has made me cry except seeing the cruelty that has been shown to Ms. McBride.
You have no empathy for women and girls. You think they're doormats, and you want to center Tim McBride in the conversation about the rights of women?
Tysm for this. I'm a transsexual/transgender Christian and have often found engaging with my faith difficult since coming out, as most communions where I am from can be quite hostile (or, at the very least, dismissive) towards us. Even in my private practice, it has been hard to accept myself as many of my religious teachings growing up were at odds with who I really was, and your videos (though definitely not just this one) have helped me so much and have motivated me to get back into scripture.
Have you seen Dr McClellan's video on the different genders in ancient Judaism? There's a reason most synagogues are lgbtq inclusive. Our rabbi is transgender.
@@angelawossname I found the video you refer to. This is Talmud, not ancient Judaism, but rather medieval
Gender as expression is just that. Expression. A persons biology is just that. How a person chooses to express that is up to them. There are as many genders as there are people.
In my congregation we have different conversations about gender and expression individually and then what that means for the kingdom and how we reconcile these. I'm glad to see that this part of your life didn't cause you to leave the kingdom. God bless.
@@sasoriko you are confusing gender and gender expression. Most people do. Gender is immutable and is something you are born with. Gender expression is about what people do or how they dress according to their gender. Gender expression is a social construct.
@@angelawossname That is certainly not what Dan just covered well in his video. What he clearly stated was this, "Sex and gender are two different things. Gender is a conceptual category; a social construct that is tied to biological sex in a variety of different ways, but is negotiable. Which is the whole reason you have conservative people talking about what it means to be a 'real man', or a 'real woman'. They recognize that being a man and being a woman is performative. It does not come down to biology."
Please how ?
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$356K monthly is something you should feel differently about....
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“Therefore if anyone be in Christ they are a new creation” “Neither male nor female”
We can thankfully leave Christ out of this one 🎉
@@apachewraithI don't think we're the ones who dragged him in, but since Speaker Johnson brought him, he's fair game.
Wait, what?
Didn't he just say "we treat everyone with dignity" 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Holy fucking shit. He really must not be able to hear himself speak....
I think he is possesed. Maybe he should-
(Honestly, I don't know how to finish the joke)
They lack both dignity and self awareness.
That is a fact in evidence by his words and deeds.
you can treat people with dignity and acknowledge they are a human being with rights even while pointing out they are hate/fear driven monsters misusing the word of god for their own gain
He can hear, he knows the hypocrisy he spews....he don't feel shame in it one bit.
As a non-binary person with religious trauma because of this topic and related 2SLGBTQIA+ reasons, I cannot tell you how much this means to me. My understanding of Jesus is so vastly different from most Christians, I had to leave the church behind. Hearing conservatives say things like "Jesus is too woke" just makes my brain spin. I had the entire Bible memorized by 11, and attended church twice a week and all of my friends were from church and I didn't do secular girl scouts, but the Pentecostal girl scouts, attended church camp in the summers. I wanted to be a youth minister for at least 8 years, but once I got rejected for my queerness, it broke my heart. I could not reconcile the idea that something as pure as love could be _wrong_. I know there's a lot of things mistaken for *love* in these modern times, but what I feel for my partner is the truest, purest love I've felt outside of that for my son. We've been together for nearly 15 years, and my stepdad told me because we are both AFAB, I'll never understand "true love".
Thank you for your concise response to Johnson’s cruel comment. I’m glad I found you!
Thank you! I've been saying this for years, but you are far more eloquent
Thank you so much for this. This is exactly right. 💜 And after all these years of their paranoia, they still have no examples of trans people attacking others in restrooms, but dozens examples of the opposite, of trans people being victims thanks to all this fear mongering and blood libel against us. Getting this message out is so important right now, thank you again.
I *am* a biologist, and I think you did pretty good on your explanation. ❤
Is biology a social construct?
That's a very affirming comment. Much appreciated.
@@therongjr Obviously not a competent one.
It wasn't biology, but philosophy, but he nailed his interpretation of Judith Butler.
@@torreyintahoe please state your full name, where you got your doctorate, and at least one peer-reviewed research paper that defends your critique.
Dan, you hit this right on the bullseye... Thank you for being kind, correct, and clear as always
Lefty men love the trans issue. It gives them permission to be full blown misogynists.
As the father of a non-binary child, thank you.
“Water is water, and wine is wine, and water cannot become wine”
Awesome ❤❤❤
Never thought I'd live to see a dystopian future become reality in America.
I'd like to see someone try to remove Buck Angel from any restroom he chose to use.
With his rhetoric lately, I'm wondering if he thinks he should use a different bathroom now.
1st person to get it right!
Thank you, Dan.
A transwoman
You have no respect for the rights of women and girls.
"For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others-and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”
That is why the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches LGBT members to keep the law of chastity and remain single and celibate if they not married to anyone of the opposite sex. So yes LGBT have to remain single and celibate if they are are unable to marry the opposite sex.
@@germanslice So what do non-binary people do? Will they marry them to anyone or to no one since no "opposite" exists?
Just to add on at 2:35 -- and then sometimes AFTER birth with more hormonal changes ahead, sex STILL isn't evident. This is exactly the kind of messy genotypal/phenotypal phenomena one expects with evolutionary hereditary and natural selection.
We're talking about social constructs and mental illness, not biology. Children who think they are a cat vs a child born with a tail are very different things.
@apachewraith Who or what specifically are you replying to?
@@michaelmaloskyjr You're bringing biology into a conversation about social constructs.
@@apachewraiththe social constructs under discussion intersect with biology rather profoundly, wouldn't you say? I think the notion of biological gender selection might be relevant to the topic.
@@NWPaul72 Not if we're being objective.
Thank you Dan for speaking truth to power. I'm scared for the future, but I'm glad to have righteous folk like you on our side.
Preach on Brother Dan!
Can I get a witness?
Seriously, I can't help but agree with everything you just said.
Of course you do 😂
@apachewraith So without knowing a single thing about me other than maybe my avatar, you make that statement.
Of course you do 😂
@@apachewraithIs this some Monty Python hate I smell? How could you hate (what I am assuming is) _Monty Python and the Holy Grail?_ The trans character you want to seethe at is in _Life of Brian!_ 😂
@@user-gk9lg5sp4y I see a mark, I take them down 🥷🏻
Thank you so much for this. This video did NOT go where I thought it would, and I’m immensely grateful for that, and for your words of common sense ❤
McClellan for President!
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This dude is quite the politician. Speaks out of both sides of his mouth.
How dare he attack any of us for our beliefs in gender.
When politics and policy revolve so much around what makes some people feel icky or uncomfy and it's accepted behaviour; we , humanity as a whole, need to mature a lot before we can have anything resembling functioning democracies.
This is partly because of capitalism and the ultra wealthy.
The capital class pour so much money into the governing bodies to make sure they serve their interests rather than creating a stable and healthy Society and these politicians know they have nothing to run on so they drum up fear and division over stupid crap to draw attention away from all the evil economic crap they keep pulling to further enrich the already rich.
Thankfully we live in a Republic where the underprivileged are protected from the will of the privileged.
6:25 "those who brandished the scriptures knew me not" Jeremiah 2:8
also it is stunningly amazing to me that a person claiming to be a bible read Christian defends a convicted felon, rapist and serial wife cheater.....wtf?
Dan, I love you for speaking out! So many people are uninformed about this topic. We all need to be more informed and open minded. Thank you!
Beautiful words, thank you, Dan.
You always nail it, I love this channel. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge
Why Speaker Johnson thinks most Americans care what "the scriptures" teach is beyond me. If you don't want biological men in the biological women's bathroom, just say it!!! Be brave and don't hide behind the bible. That's the most irritating part to me, the cowardice.
The whole idea is to protect women from ugly men anyway, which in itself is non inclusive.
I doubt they think it's cowardice, they probably believe that's an appeal to authority. Of course, they think they're very brave when they say something controversial from behind bullet-proof glass, addressing a gathering of their followers.
At the beginning of every video he should list his degrees, and what fields they are in. I saw a very short video which claims that McClellan is not a credentialed scholar, merely an activist. Well, you can be an activist and still speak accurately on a topic. I have looked up McClellan's bio. He has the receipts, education wise. As far as being an activist, so what? Is that now, per se, a suspect position? Better we should be apathetic? He is absolutely dead on accurate about the identity politics of white Christian nationalists, aka maga.
His intro vid is the first vid on his page.
Well said Dan.
I cant believe how some people today are so medieval in their thinking but we see them wave their holy books as justification for whatever they want. Fundamentalists always do that, often as they oppress or kill people.
Religious fanatics might not like it but humans are animals. And in the animals kingdom, sexual designation is fluid. Some species change their sex as they grow, some even change en-mass if there is a lack of males or females, or in response to their environment. To believe these definitions are fixed is to be ignorant of the facts. But when did religious people ever care about facts or truth?
Alligators are one of my favorites. Their biological sex is largely dependent on the heat of the nest. Mama alligators have carefully pack the dried reeds/plants and mud to ensure different parts of the nest are different temperatures and colder than seasonal temperatures can lead to too many males and vice-versa. These are creatures that predate modern humans by over 30 million years. Our binary is not nature's binary.
The point you’re making is such an important one. Being part of the LGBT community it has become more than apparent that gay,lesbian and transgender people are far more at risk from the general population than we ever have been to them. Unfortunately I can never see this changing and if anything I think things are getting and going to get worse for the Gay! Lesbian and especially trans community. ☃️
@@WovenChaos it's not a community
@@gabbygood6813 excuse me?
@@gabbygood6813you are not a good person.
@@HPLovecatsyou are excused.
A community is not defined by sexuality or color of skin or religious practices
@@gabbygood6813 lmao
I love this, and I think you're brilliant! My favorite thing you said was that these people need to grow the hell up.
Thank you, Dan, for treating us like humans that deserve respect.
"Biological male" is a term used by people who don't really understand biology.
Aside from the genetics (and the 'Y'-chromosome has been degrading since it initially evolved some 166 million years ago in mammals, and has already disappeared entirely from some mammalian species, and is expected to be lost in humans in around 6 million years); sexual dimorphism has a number of developmental forks, each one of which can go the other way (and the default is 'female'). So there is a fairly broad continuum with significant overlap between 'male' and 'female' - including what one finds attractive and traits like physical strength, endurance, intelligence (if that is truly a single, measurable trait, which I am not entirely convinced is the case), etc.
I am, frankly, tired of people who are ignorant of any biology they did not learn in their 9th grade health class make pronouncements on what 'biology' has to say about it.
That's because they're using biology to justify role play, and calling it a spectrum. Just because someone is born with six fingers doesn't mean my five fingers are six because I say so. And the idea that I could force you at gunpoint to agree is fucking mind-blowing 🤦♂️
@@apachewraithare you more masculine than a man you know? Is anyone more masculine than you? You deny that there's a spectrum between Brad Pitt and Josh Gad? Gfy, you're not arguing in good faith, you're trying to own a lib. You shoulda brought more.
@@apachewraith If you think transgender people believe they physically have body parts that they don’t, then I have some great news: that’s not true! Like, at all!
It seems you have simply been misinformed about what being transgender is like. No worries, misunderstandings happen to the best of us
@@apachewraith Intersex conditions are absolutely and objectively a spectrum. Moreover, comparing trans and cis people's brain scans shows that a brain in a body that was designated one sex at birth can function like a typical brain in a body that was designated the "opposite" sex at birth, and such a "cross-sex" brain tends to coincide with that person identifying as trans.
Did God make several million mistakes everywhere on Earth, or is biological evolution and individual development a fundamentally imprecise process?
@@apachewraith Who's "they"?
What 'role play' are you talking about?
And who is forcing anyone to do anything at gunpoint?
tbh a lot of the anti-trans stuff is just a wedge issue they recklessly promote to score political points
Thank you! I have many loved ones who are treated as sub-human by "family" who use religion as an excuse.
I've been told I am actually an abomination before God because I have no faith in that imaginary being.
He doesn't believe in me, why should I believe in Him?
@CaptainCanuck68 i am so sorry. 🫂 I am an Evangelical Lutheran married to an Atheist. I have great respect for my husband and his beliefs (or lack thereof), just as he has for mine.
It is unacceptable to hate because someone is different.
THIS is what we need to see broadcast far and wide!! Thanks for posting
Johnson bending the knee for someone like trump says a lot about him.
1. Love the Lord thy God with all your heart, soul & mind.
2. Love one another as I have loved you.
3. Treat others the way you wish to be treated.
4. FLUSH everything else.
AMEN.
God Bless you Dr. McClellan 💜🏳️⚧️ Adonai Bless you and Lord Jesus Christ Bless you 💜✝️🏳️⚧️ Thank you for your Wisdom in this chaos!
This is a problem I point out every once in a while when someone (usually a Christian guy) asks, “What is a woman?” They should ask “What is a man” first before they go on to more advanced questions.
That “man” argument has been going on globally for millennia. Philosophers have debated this problem to the point where you have some cultures having coming-of-age rituals where, if you don’t pass them…or if you avoid them altogether…you’re considered not a man but still a boy (basically calling you feminine without calling you feminine). Then there are discussions on what behavior and characteristics males are supposed to have to be seen as “not a woman,” or worse, “a girl,” or anything close to being feminine and worthy of criticism…because they’re “beta” or weak. Whatever the definition is of a man is held up to a perceived ideal of “manliness” that a guy is supposed to have in order to be respected by other men, and that perspective changes from culture to culture and from time to time. And there’s no universal agreement on what a man is besides not behaving in a way that is seen as weak…a characteristic that only belongs to females. But there’s not even a consensus on what makes someone weak, unmanly, and despised by the recognized ruling elite. Even whole societies criticize each other’s men for not living up to their standards.
Whatever it is, there’s a lot of effort put into distancing males from anything regarded as feminine and trying to make it into the superior class of respectable human beings. But nobody can definitively decide what a man is…beyond them not being a woman…which btw, whatever that is. It’s a very nebulous subject.
I’m now wondering if the definition isn’t “what is a man” (which in almost every place and time is the ideal) as much as “what isn’t a woman.”
If these guys can’t clarify what a man is after all this time, they’re not qualified to ask the next question. They’re just acting like privileged narcissists.
Ask “what is a man” first before asking “what is a woman.” Don’t get ahead of yourself or you’ll look uneducated.
I've worked professional skills jobs part time and we had bathrooms like we have at home, in a VERY RED state. Nobody gave a shyte..well they did..but nobody cared!
I aspire to your level of eloquence, yet I fall short. Well spoken.
Thank you so much Dan❤❤❤
Dan, thank you for consistently and eloquently standing up against weaponizing Scripture. ❤
I recall that in the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus offers to make Mary a man and says that every woman who makes herself male will enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Thank you for addressing this subject in such a clear, logical, and humane manner. As a nonbinary person who presents as more masculine in spite of the fact that I was assigned female at birth, I have faced a lifetime of bigotry. For me to conform with what society thinks of as feminine would be extremely uncomfortable to the point of being emotional torture. This is not a choice. I have known this about myself since i was in kindergarten. For people who accuse us of pretending to be the something we are not, we are actually being honest about who we are. Since we are not harming anyone, we should be given the space to do that, same as everyone else. As for all this drama about bathrooms, we have been sharing public bathrooms and other communal facilities with cisgender people since the beginning of time, with a vanishingly small number of incidents. We are not the problem, we just want to use these facilitiesfor their designatedpurpose. I agree with your assertion that the people who have their panties in a bunch over this need to grow the hell up. This is being stirred up by certain individuals who are trying to distract the public from the fact that they are undermining our democracy and trying to install an authoritarian government. This needs to stop before the freedom that is the birthright of all Americans is ripped to shreds.
Wonderful Video. Much Appreciated!
Never heard it outlined as accurately as you have just done. My guideline has always been: gender =man/woman= construct, sex = male/female = biology, and biology is never black/white. Keeps it clear for me. Love the shirt.
According to the movie 😉 I thought NASA (Kevin Costner) already solved the bathroom problem... 🤷♀️
Omg, yes!!! I LOVE that scene!!!
Was that a funny joke? I don't get it
@@wellsjdanIt’s a reference to the excellent film “Hidden Figures”
"Speaker Johnson does not believe that it is OK to enslave foreigners." Gonna have to get a cite on that assertion.
He's at farthest within on two degrees of separation from people who've said stuff that was basically apologism for slavery. (The link being Answers in Genesis, which started as a creationist organization that also dabbled in right-wing culture war stuff, but is now more of a Christian Nationalist organization that also promotes creationism.)
Thank you so much for this video. You help all of us to become more informed. I wish we truly were a secular nation. If we were, I don’t think any of this would be an issue.
Yes, Dan! You're amazing.
"A man is a man, and a woman is a woman", in a sense, he is mostly correct, but only because his understanding of those words are incorrect.
Gender Identity is something that exists in the mind, not between someone's legs.
A transgender man is a man, and a transgender woman is a woman. It may have taken them a bit longer to figure that out because of sociatal pressures trying to dictate to them who they are based on what they were born with between their legs, but they didn't "become" a man or a woman, they always were one between their ears.
Transitioning just helps align the body with the mind.
Thank you for this Dr. McClellan
Wow, well said. Good job. Thanks
Out of interest, does Galatians 3 Verse 28-29 serve the purpose it appears to in this context? Or would it simply be a convenient misunderstanding of a metaphor?
To whit
[28] There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. [29] And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
Well said. Your analysis was flawless. What Rep. Mace said was deplorable. She suggested it was unsafe for women to share a bathroom with a trans woman - as if they're all sexual predators. She should have been formally censored for implying that.
First of all, he shouldn't be making his personal religious beliefs into law or rules. Not everyone believes as he does. Lastly, hasn't she fully transitioned? What is their problem?
Imaginary and performative.
It wouldn't be a problem no matter where she was in her transition. Her private medical details are her own business.
@mikeymullins5305 I absolutely agree. I didn't expound on my comment and I'm sorry. My point was that she is fully transitioned yet they want her to use a men's bathroom. I would think that since she is fully transitioned, that even they shouldn't have a problem with her. But, their hate overrides everything.
I went to Egypt for almost a month as a tourist. Public bathrooms there don’t supply TP. In every Ladies’ room I visited while there was a male offering facial tissue for a tip. The males were as young as eight, as old as eighty. Never a problem, no issues.
I am asexual, I have no interest in sex whatsoever.
Do whatever you like with the information, I honestly have no respect for anyone who questions that.
And I have no respect for people who make discussion about themselves with completely off-topic posts.
Hmmm. At least the guy is honest. There must be another way to acknowledge the plight of the preferentially ambiguous than asking the world to lie to them. That should be a personal choice they reserve for themselves. No love is lost in that.
Thank you. We are facing a gathering darkness, it is a comfort to know that we are not alone.
gender is a social construct under the secular and international study of humans, so yes it is dynamic under different contexts
very difficult topic for lesser educated english speakers to understand if they do not have a strong STEM background
The best yet. You get sharper sow more bravery every day, Dan. I am in awe, and I think a lot of us are.
Don't care what your book says about people's existence. Biology supports trans people, all I need to know.
Thank you for this. It is such a struggle to see Christians assert these binary or dichotomous worldviews based on the Bible, when it takes such effort to combat it, because they often just shut their ears when you start lightly pushing back.
Thank you for your video. You are absolutely correct, and clearly very learned.
And I would add that you, Dan McClellan, today, are powerfully articulate and eloquent, even more than usual, and I am grateful.
As a student of biology and anthropology, and a Christian trying to rediscover God - there's actually a lot of support for a spectrum of phenotypic gender presentation in its connection to sex. By that I mean, even biologically its not as simple as 'xy male and xx female' all the time. Essentially, all the biological characteristics we can see and associate with an individuals sex-determining chromosomes, are dependent on a series of hormone relays that tell the body how to develop what part and when and where to do it. Whenever hormones are interrupted or work a little differently than they should, it'll affect the physical function and appearance of a lot of these characteristics. It's not as though having the two x chromosomes automatically makes every cell in your body know you must be a "woman", it simply means that certain pathways get activated, which results in certain hormones being secreted, which results in certain body parts developing according to those hormones. Even trying to reduce human gender to the seemingly binary nature chromosomes reveals that it's still very complicated and nothing fits easily into two distinct categories.
Thank you, this is beautifully put.
Man that was fantastic to watch. Thanks Dan.
I don't trust people who spend a lot of time talking about who is in what bathrooms, especially children's bathrooms, like in a middle school.
These creepers spend a not-insignificant portion of their time talking about who is pooping where, and that's just not ok. As long as you're not hurting anyone in the bathroom, and your aim is true, I don't care.
As for people being hurt, it seems to be the good Christians who are doing the hurting.
@@inwyrdn3691 but that's not what is happening. Boys are attacking girls in the restrooms. Physically and sexually assaulting them and most of the time it's not even being reported. Because they are afraid of being labeled some type of phobic
@@gabbygood6813 Can you provide some examples of these cases?
@emersonb.5399 I mean sure but you can just look it up yourself. ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A teenager and her parents have filed a $30 million lawsuit against a northern Virginia school system, saying the district failed to adequately investigate and tried to cover up her sexual assault by a male student in a high school bathroom. He was wearing a skirt so that means it's ok to enter into a female safe space I guess..?
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A teenager and her parents have filed a $30 million lawsuit against a northern Virginia school system, saying the district failed to adequately investigate and tried to cover up her sexual assault by a male student in a high school bathroom.
@@gabbygood6813 I just looked that up and according to AP News the perpetrator used male pronouns so it doesn't seem like he was a trans girl. Sexual assaults do occur in bathrooms, no one is denying that, but that was a problem long before there were any concerns about trans people.
It appears “Separate but Equal” is once again a desired status quo for people. Because that’s all this is
This is one of the weirder parts of Christianity to me. I'm Jewish, and Judaism recognizes six sexes, and doesn't have much to say about gender at all. Also, Joseph's beautiful "coat" is more probably a dress. The bit in Scripture about not wearing the clothing of the other gender is pretty clearly understood in the context of people trying to disguise themselves in order to enter places forbidden to their gender - men going into the women's baths and the like.
I wonder if Mike Johnson could tell me if a tumtum is a man or a woman?
Also Jewish, but these days I am secular. Some of my friends aren't, though, so I know our new local rabbi is transgender. I never had any issues when I did attend, and I'm gay.
This is the BEST description of Transgender
My experience is discussing this with transphobic people is they are not interested in facts. They will continue to maintain that there is a perfect correlation between biological (genetic) sex and gender identity even AFTER they are know about Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (and other conditions). It is a textbook example of not letting the facts get in the way of your prejudices.
One of the cultural shocks I got when I was stationed in Italy in the late 60s was at a bar one night. I went to use the restroom which consisted of a small room with a sink and a small room with a large basin in the floor with two raised areas in the middle to place your feet to squat. That was a minor shock, but not a big deal. When I came out to wash my hands I was shocked to find a barmaid using the sink. That’s when I learned a lot of the public restrooms were open to both sexes.
You reference the Matthew Eunuch verse a lot. I was told the translation for eunuch could mean anyone who did not have sex with women. Hence made by man, means castrated, but for god is just celibacy, and from the womb means men who weren’t attracted to women. Even if this is only mildly plausible, it’s a great negotiation to claim Jesus was ok
with gay men.
Don’t you know that Dan does not let dogma affect his scholarship, nay not even a little. Yea, his negotiations with the Bible are perfection😇
"Even if this is only mildly plausible, it’s a great negotiation to claim Jesus was ok with gay men."
And why is this a good thing? Why are bad arguments a good response to bad arguments? All readings made up from nothing deserve the same contempt.
@ I’m a hundred percent atheist to Yahweh, El, Allah, Jesus as a deity etc. and if I thought there was a viable, non violent way of eliminating dogmatic religions from the world, I’d be all for it. There isn’t, not in several lifetimes if ever, at this point. Since all religions are negotiated from text, a renegotiation in favor of tolerance and acceptance beats the hell out of the current model. It’s just pragmatism in a world deluded by 1000s of years of mythology being portrayed as the single most important “fact” to the majority or the population, as a harm reduction strategy.
@@docmychedelic9153 Don't agree with any of this, and religions are not "negotiated from text", text is created to support religion. You're lies are not better than their lies, even of you think the outcome might be better. It's still just lies.
There's no good reason to believe that Jesus ever even existed, in that context hopefully you can see how ridiculous it is for you to propose some silly justification for claiming what imaginary Jesus believed. It will not get the respect of critical thinkers and it will never convince the hateful.
A stupid lie that produces a good outcome is why we have religions in the first place. If you'd change how you view this, maybe you could realize that there are "viable, non-violent ways" after all.
@ He does often point out his disagreement with some scholarly opinions. As much as I would like to disagree with his take on the bitter water verse, I don’t. He does always state, some scholars do disagree. What I’ve heard could be completely wrong but if indeed the original word was used to describe men who weren’t attracted to women, in Roman law at the time, as was claimed , then it absolutely is something that could be debated. Since it’s all literature and is misinterpreted constantly by those seeking to take rights from people, even if it’s completely false, it would be no different than the complete inanity claimed by Christians every single day, just with the intent of inclusion instead of demonizing.
Hell to the yeah! Thanks so much for speaking out against the speaker!
to paraphrase some guy from old times "You can't learn if you think you already know"
Johnson is one of those people.
As a country, we need to stop conflating the words sex and gender.
“Sex” is the male or female bits, and “gender” is the way one acts socially, sexually, culturally, etc. “Sex” can’t change naturally, but only by way of surgery. “Gender” can and does change over the course of life. For example, many children are some level of gender neutral until 3 or 4, then develop a gender that can last until puberty, or change again. Many little girls are what we call Tomboys, which is a masculine gender, and the develop a more feminine gender at puberty... all while being of the female sex.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Well said!
My sex isn’t just whatever I say it is
That’s not how reality works
Did you not understand that the "gender" as a language and cultural concept is different than chromosomes?
@@TheDanEdwards a man an address doesn’t get to use the women’s restroom just because he says he feels like a woman
You people have lost your minds
@@TheDanEdwards my gender isn’t just whatever I say it is either
Can I identify as beautiful?
Can I choose the identify as being funny or as being intelligent?
Or are those objective qualities that the rest of society has the judge?
Why is gender a special exception?
@@keenanmiller6231 Beautiful and funny are definitely not objective qualities.
@ our identities, everything about us is negotiated with society
With other human beings
Nothing about me or you can just be asserted with words . I can’t just assert “ I’m intelligent “ “ I’m handsome “ I’m a woman “ “ I have blue eyes “ and expect everyone else to agree with me
That would be insane
Gender identity is not some weird lone exception to this rule .
This is an intellectual fad that can’t stand against even the slightest scrutiny