1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 Well Thanksgiving without talking politics. 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:03,360 So first I want to say I think the word 3 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:04,960 cult is pretty strong. 4 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:07,280 I wouldn't use that word myself, though I do think 5 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:10,400 it's problematic that when we see something I think we 6 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:13,840 should all agree is bad, justifying it by saying the 7 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:16,720 other side is worse doesn't really help. 8 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:19,920 I think that we should be nonpartisan when it comes 9 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:23,840 to saying, hey, that person's corrupt, or hey, that person's 10 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:25,680 pushing Project 2025. 11 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:28,160 Just because you think there are some people like AOC 12 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:30,160 who believes in the Green New Deal or whatever kind 13 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:33,280 of things you're talking about, doesn't justify the wrong things 14 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:35,520 happening from either side of the aisle. 15 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:38,960 Now, when it comes to this up here, uh no 16 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:41,920 one's saying that men can get Bradman. 17 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:43,760 I have never said that in my campaign. 18 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:45,920 I'm not aware of any one of my fellow Democratic 19 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:48,160 colleagues who ran for office who have said that. 20 00:00:48,160 --> 00:00:50,720 That is a narrative pushed by Fox News. 21 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:53,520 Now, I will say that when I was growing up, 22 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:56,320 I was taught that there was only two types of 23 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:57,040 chromosomes. 24 00:00:57,040 --> 00:00:58,800 There was XX and XY. 25 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:00,960 That's what I was raised to believe. 26 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:03,360 Only for years later and more recently find out that 27 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:05,920 there's actually several more pumutations than just that. 28 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:08,560 And also to come to find out that 30% of 29 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:10,320 men lose their Y chromosome. 30 00:01:10,320 --> 00:01:11,680 Yeah, are you a geneticist? 31 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:12,240 I am. 32 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:14,800 So most women have two X chromosomes. 33 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:16,320 Most men have an X and a Y. 34 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:20,640 But you can have one X, three X's, XXY, XY, 35 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:22,000 and other combinations too. 36 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,880 And all what we're talking about is related to, but 37 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:28,160 distinct from the idea of gender, which reflects, you know, 38 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:32,240 one's lived experiences, their identity, even social cultural factors. 39 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:33,920 I have a fun fact for you, John. 40 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:36,000 Uh among men of a certain age, about a third 41 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,320 of them, uh, we can actually detect that some of 42 00:01:38,320 --> 00:01:40,640 their cells, some of their circulating white blood cells have 43 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:42,560 actually lost their Y chromosome. 44 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:46,080 I mean, given that this is the reality, if you 45 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:49,040 ask me now what is a woman, well, previously I 46 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:50,960 thought there was only XX and X, Y, and that 47 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:51,440 was it. 48 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:53,920 Now that I realize it's more complicated than that, if 49 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:55,600 you ask me what is a woman, of course, I'm 50 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:58,560 gonna say, well, because I was lied to growing up 51 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:01,000 about the whole XX and XY. thing, I guess I 52 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,400 would have to take a course that would teach me 53 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:06,040 certain studies about gender to make sure that I understand 54 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:06,680 things correctly 55 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:08,760 That would be this gender studies. 56 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:11,640 And that's not me pushing any woke agenda. 57 00:02:11,640 --> 00:02:14,040 That's just me having an open mind and wanting to 58 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:14,840 understand. 59 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:17,480 Because you know the Olympics a long time ago, they 60 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:19,960 tried to do blood tests on the athletes to basically 61 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:22,600 determine well who has XX and XY in order to 62 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:25,000 make sure that you know only males and females went 63 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,800 into their their uh particular sports separately. 64 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:29,960 And they found out that they couldn't do that. 65 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:30,680 They couldn't do that. 66 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:33,320 The Olympics tried to do that and they realized that 67 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:36,280 you can't just look at chromosomal stuff in a bloodstream 68 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,160 and determine what kind of genitalia someone has based upon 69 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:40,040 that alone. 70 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:42,360 Apparently it's more complicated than that. 71 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:44,680 But that's what we're talking about when we talk about 72 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:47,800 gender studies but this up here no one's saying that 73 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:49,400 men can get pregnant. 74 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:51,960 I've never said that I don't know of any other 75 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:54,840 Democrat who's running for office who has said that I 76 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:57,960 suppose you can find some maybe someone out there who 77 00:02:58,200 --> 00:02:59,800 uh who has said so and you can take that 78 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,600 out of context but that's not a real serious thing 79 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:04,680 that any one of us uh who's run for the 80 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:07,000 Democratic office believes in.