Amen 💯 👏 👏

Truer words have never been spoken!

The tomboy should make a come back. I grew up as a tomboy but understood, thanks to my parents, that I wasn't a boy nor did I need to be one. I could be a nerdy girl that grew up into hunting and sports while keeping my pulp fiction, science fiction and fantasy likes, and that was fine.

That just shows that you aren’t understanding the issue. Why would you think that people hadn’t already thought of this? You honestly believe trained therapists and psychiatrists never once thought that some characteristics are shared by gay and trans people? Your fear of trans is making you not think straight.

@@sgshaday and no one nudged you into taking hormones, which at any age has deep consequences (some not so desirable like health problems).

Yes that had me in stitches too - definitely the funniest ending to a new rule I've heard :D

I'm still laughing! 🤣😂

Sweet pickles baby thats some funny shit .

I'm completely jaw dropped in all this situation. Who on earth would do such thing to their own children? Not even the weirdest cult in human history have played with children like this. Who are these people? What motivates them behind their decision? It seems to me that this was all planned out decades ago. Let's have "women liberation".....let's have "sexual liberation"......let's have "gay liberation" .......let's have "gender fluidity liberation". They made a lot of people think they were free....then they convince them of being bisexual.....then being gay......now being trans.....I agree with Bill that is a trend.....but this trend was socially engineered long long ago. What is the end goal in here? You have many cultures in the east that are disgusted by all of this. It's a matter of time before these cultures will widen their differences to such a degree that it will clash in a world war. I fear for the future of my kids.

@@vinlondon8904 It is by design. By the very people you have identified as being disgusted by it. They were jealous of our freedoms. The Marxists. They captured our three branches. Through blackmail and greed they control congress, Governorships, and Secretaries of State and Attorneys General across our nation. They've been stealing our way of life, our taxes and our Elections. In two months the truth will have already been brought to light. Pray people.

Good thing no one scheduled you for eye removal and peg-leg surgery!

@@MWSfan18 You got that right! I might have accepted a parrot, though 😌

Perfectly put

Pretty sure no one and I mean NO ONE is steering their children to transgender.

This is 9 minutes of shit. Bill doesn't once refer to the science of the matter which unambiguously points in favor of gender affirming care. It's 100% feels-based, which is so disappointing considering Bill isn't a parent and usually knows how much parents can be so easily manipulated by scary kid-based fearmongering.

Why does homophobic hysteria need to be said, and what does it have to do with actual parenthood?

@@highroller-jq3ix not wanting gender affirming care for minors isn’t homophobic hysteria. Gender affirming care for minors is child abuse plain and simple.

He was part of the problem tone deaf for sure...to late buddy you crested the problem

​@highroller-jq3ix how is it homophobic to talk about transgender they're two different groups of people

Or maybe you have absolutely NO idea what you're talking about. Seriously... Maybe you should just let people be who they want to be, because it doesn't affect you in the slightest. Live and let live, mind your own business and realise that people don't have to conform to forms of being or thinking that others are comfortable with. Simple as that.

This is too complex to try to argue on a UKposts comment thread. But if a kid likes the characteristics of the opposite gender and chooses to pursue acting them out it’s his or her prerogative. It’s when someone wants to defy physical nature by amputating themselves that should raise questions about someone’s mental well being. And the same can be said about “normal people” doing culturally accepted cosmetic surgery. I’m one who can care less if you chop off or artificially add anything from or to your body. I just laugh when you demand from me to believe your lies when things are blatantly obvious….you’re either born male or female, period.

@@changemymind8692 exactly. The trans activists say the most sexist and homophobic stuff!

it was also spot on accurate lol

@@changemymind8692 tell that to people born with both male and female genitals....

Not stupid, just lacking experience and knowledge. Naive or ignorant would be a more accurate term.

@@mnomadvfx well said

​@@mnomadvfx What an ouroburos then. Stupid means "having or showing a great lack of intelligence or common sense". I'm not sure I would feel better about being called naive which means "lacking common sense" and/or ignorant which means "lacking intelligence". It all adds back up to stupid truly.

STUPID (adj) - 1. Slow of mind. 2. Given to unintelligent decisions or acts: acting in an unintelligent or careless manner. (Merriam-Webster Dictionary) I’d say the definition of “stupid” perfectly describes human beings of all ages, but especially children. As a father and bonus-father of a total of 7 children, I can testify to the accuracy of Bill’s word choice.

Ever try talking to one? They’re wrong about everything, much like the Republican Party…O!

Except that he has stopped saying it about wingnut fundies and has now become their mouthpiece.

People on the right have been saying it for decades.

@@VisionsOfSpy Yes, people on the right have been spewing hateful, bigoted, homophobic propaganda for years.

@@highroller-jq3ix what's wingnut fundies?

@@ForeverBennett You probably meant what are wingnut fundies, right?

yeah John Stewart is really all in on this.

On a different note, I was kinda disappointed John Oliver recently defended the trans person who won the girls swimming competition and didnt make any comment on how absurd it was that they were allowed to compete in the first place

Indeed, or the issues with pornography and what that's done to relationships these days

Jon went from speaking for veterans to speaking for trannies.

​@@g.d.graham2446 It's a question of a point of view. In ancient Greece there wasn't any such thing as herero-homo program. All the Greeks had anal sex and watched theater. Who didn't have anal sex was called barbarian. They didn't understand that someone could have sex just with women or just with men. All of them had sex with both. You see, nowadays society is biased programmed robots believing they are this or that. Nobody is anything. It's all just a program in your mind. Nothing else.

You know this is really what the Florida bill is about. It was never the dont say gay bill that the left tagged it as. It truly was about the transgender fad that is sweeping through the children. Let me be clear anyone who does have to suffer through that truly, I feel bad for them. The ones that are dealing with the true mental anguish of not knowing their own bodies. Its not meant to stifle those but to slow down this very dangerous trend that is trivializing gender dysphoria to something akin to changing a shirt.

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Or abusive adults for them esp the kids that have no inclination to bring trans or gay Some parents are sick and would do something like that to their children just to hurt them

Neither should adults.

You're not gay and this segment is bigoted trash for old people who are scared of change.

@D Hokanson Not yet. Bill's big enough and has banked enough goodwill already to be able to rock it for now.

HBO get zero props. At 10:30AM today HBO is airing TRANSHOOD. “Four kids and their families unmask the intimate realities of how gender fluidity is reshaping the family next door,…..” WTF. And this is programming for kids.

Yes cause many are starting to realize that it's getting out of hand!

Props to HBO for airing this ignorance. The same exact graph could be used for people who identified as left handed. That graph plateaued once it was no longer a crime, or seen as evil to be left handed. The gender graph will plateau in the same way.

@@thesouringgentleman that is an inevitable. Of course it will plateau at some point. The point of the graph is to bring credence to the hypothesis that LGBQ??????xzy has become more than a random occurring anomaly. It suggest people are increasingly experimenting with LGBTQ???? behavior because it is being MARKETED to them.

It trivializes the struggles of gay and trans people though. People in this world still will beat or even kill you just for being gay or trans.

It was clever. The truth hurts sometimes

@@RocStarr913most trans deaths are suicides

Then don't be either. @@RocStarr913 Life is your choice.

@@St.john123 You don’t choose to be gay.

Midwestern straight white dude here. Most of us echo the sentiment. We TRULY don't care what anyone does or doesnt do with their bits. We're just tired of hearing about it everywhere. A person's preferred hole for pleasure doesn't rank anywhere on my list of qualities I use to evaluate their chatacter. I have no desire to know about anyone's sex life, straight, gay, bi, incel, or otherwise. If we just kept private life private, we would solve a lot of our problems. If nobody knows your sexual preference, you can't perceive that people are using it against you.

Thank you for this. Unfortunately it’s so much better when a gay person says this.

Yeah, everyone is totally accepting of gay and trans people and they are never shunned from any communities. What are they even complaining about? 🙃

@@jellybellytelly . Maybe subconsciously they’re upset that their attention getting “go too”isn’t going to get anyone excited anymore and now they’re just another person doing boring people stuff like everyone else. Maybe they just need to up the bar and go full furry or maybe some other outwardly repulsive lifestyle if there even exists one these days?

@@stephaniemanchester-chermo3840 I am perfectly happy being a boring, unremarkable person. I frankly don’t want the attention of the public, nor do I have any intentions to be a public figure. I’m just a dude, who happens to be gay, and wants to be left alone.

I was a boy who played with Rainbow Brite and Transformers. I'm glad my mom wasn't a California wokester or I'd have been raised as gender fluid, and I am in NO way gender fluid.

I'm 77, a biological woman and as a conservative am relieved to hear your remarks. I came thru the 70's and explored the age of Aquarius. I went thru the tomboy stage (boys activities were much more exciting) I felt twinges of same sex attraction when my close friends were girls and my hormones were activating, bought into the free love lifestyle, explored religions and spiritual enlightenment etc. I was allowed the freedom to be and to taste and test. No one labeled me as a set in concrete identity but depending on the observer ,I was variously viewed as tomboy, rebel, sinner (at times), activist, defender of infant life, ( after abortions) , truth seeker always, to the irritation ( understandably frequently) of some friends and former friends.. My point , If I had declared and identified permanently with any of those phases/seasons I would have stunted my growth. I would never have come to experience the peace ,confidence and love that I now posses by the grace of God. Thank you for being a seeker , speaking truth and love for children's welfare with courage and your gift for humor.

@@Craxin01 same with my sister….grew up watching dungeons and dragons, night rider, all the things boys loved. She even dyed her hair in crazy colors and had the “woke compatible look”. She also pretended to be some of the males on shows we watched where myself and other girls emulated the females on those shows. As an adult, she is totally hetero and more girly than me. She is very thankful she isn’t a child today, people would have definitely told her she was in the wrong body today.

@@johnriser6021 your life experience is as valid for you as anyone elses is for them. Im curious if you have any trans people in your family or in your closest circle of friends? Ive come to believe that for a significant % of them, the need to be accepted as their identified sex/gender is not a phase, just like being gay isnt a phase for a significant % of people who identify as gay.

Facts!!!

" a functioning BS meter. " Yes, Bill Mahar does occasionally stumble on to the truth.

Deep down he’s conservative. He just won’t admit it to himself.

I think mostly like Maher, and I'm sure he doesn't want to be a conservative because most conservatives think EVERYTHING is some super deep conspiracy and are extremely religious and want to make everything spiritual. Can't get the last bit of toothpaste out of the tube? That's because of SATAN.

@@robfut9954 he’s definitely a moderate at least. He just doesn’t like conservative politicians. And I don’t blame him. But he’s like millions and millions others, have seen enough of the lunacy from the “progressives”.

@@Scbirdsfan803 too bad the Democratic Party can’t be more like him. They’ve slid so far left that they’re impossible to identify with these days

being woke is fine/good in itself, it just means you are alert for inequality. Being so woke you make more inequality is the problem.

He is poisoned pretty much, just not as much as others.

@@trollism2271 You are never woke enough , meaning no matter how thoughtful you are for inequalities you will never appease the purity spiral. Being woke is a downside, and anti liberal

What does being woke mean? Please define it and why it's bad?

@@dantheman8152 it's a word that sums up the new religion that permeates now through government institutions, schools, more and more church denominations, and society in general. It's the religion of -equality- equity, progressivism, "wokeism", or whatever name it has

Maher is simply disingenuously dishonest here. @0:32 ". . . and 20.8% of Gen Z." (identify as LGBTQ) @1:03 "All the babies are in the wrong bodies?" The acronymic "T", included in the Gallup 20.8% of Gen Z LGBTQ individuals, represents less than 2% of the U.S. Gen Z population who are transgender. Less than 2% is a vastly different concept/number from 100%, which Maher explicated with his untethered, "All the babies . . . ". Is there a term that applies for when one exponentially exaggerates hyperbole? @1:37 "The ACLU recently tweeted a list of those who would be disproportionately harmed by this (loss of abortion rights). You would think women might top that list, no. Wasn't even on the list. Second on the list was LGBT. Really? Abortion rights effects gay and trans people more than . . . you know, breeders?" What a dickheaded diatribe. The ACLU's unranked listing of those at risk of disproportionate harm is as follows: ▪ Black, Indigenous & other people of color ▪ the LGBTQ community ▪ immigrants ▪ young people ▪ those working to make ends meet ▪ people with disabilities The ACLU erred in ascribing a reasonable level of intelligence and common sense to Maher and his producers. It seems apparent that the ACLU did not anticipate that people would miss the obvious . . . that abortion bans do "proportionately" harm all "individuals with uteri who can become pregnant" (at times incl. most women, many trans-men, some non-binary folks, etc.). Their list is clearly meant to identify the minority demographic subcategories, of the over-arching population with potential for pregnancy, which would experience harm "disproportionately". @2:13 "Not everything's about you." @4:03 "Compared to trans, gay is practically cis and cis is practically Mormon." The messages here are that (1) trans people struggling for equal rights, acceptance and dignity must mean they think everything's about them, what a nuisance, can't they just stop existing and (2) that trans people, being abnormal, weird, strange or de minimis . . . outliers, compared to everyone else, specifically gays, cis people or Mormons, are perhaps worthy of marginalization or dismissal and unworthy of equal rights, recognition of existence or necessary medical care. @2:35 "We're literally experimenting on children" @2:43 "We just don't know much about the long term effects." (of puberty blockers) "I don't understand parents who won't let their 9 yr old walk to the corner without a helmet, an epipen and a gps tracker. And god forbid their lips touch dairy, but . . . but hormone blockers and genital surgery . . . fine." Puberty blockers, GnRH analogues, administered with historical safety to children suffering from precocious puberty, since the early 80's, are only ever prescribed on a temporary basis, for a limited time period, during which patients are monitored for adverse reactions and side effects like loss of bone density. They would not be prescribed for a child as young as 9 unless that child exhibited precocious puberty. Also, I challenge anyone to identify any case where a 9 yr old has undergone genital sex reassignment surgery, as Maher implies here. @5:45 "Either Ohio is shaming them or California is creating them." Ohio Republicans are again seeking to restrict gender-affirming health care for transgender youth and prevent transgender girls from competing in female sports. Does this kind of legislation promote shame? Arguably yes, or at least inhibitive feelings which negatively impact the free expression of the lives of trans people/youth. One would have to torture words and concepts to construe the legal protections for trans people codified in California law as "creating" transgender youth in any way. Anecdotally, I know of transgender young people who have moved to California because of the legal protections afforded them there. @8:54 "I wanted to be a pirate." If only he had simply desired to be thoughtful and carefully accurate.

Something a little scary to think about is how this isn’t true anymore. Little kids grow up wanting to be UKpostsrs. Their fantastical thinking of what their future holds has been replaced with the industry

@@Fung43 Actually the 8 year olds that I know want to be inventors, footballplayers, Olympic athletes, vets... things like that. Granted...I do not live in the US but in Europe. I can only speak for my neck of the woods.

Astronaut’s and fighter pilots

@James Brice get with the wrong woman and you may create one.

I got the cowboy surgery and regretted it.

I could say the same about straight cis gender people in their 50s-70s. Somehow the younger cis men don‘t feel threatened or offended by the existence of trans people. Every time the same thing. The gays had to fight to get SOME acceptance and empathy and now we‘re doing it all over again with trans people. I mean, why even make it a topic? It‘s clearly populistic and honestly a little narrow-minded in my point of view. But yay freedom of speech ~

@@nikaleyAnd yet you couldn’t let it go. The focus had to come back to you.

@@alhugo4722 idk what they said, but they deleted their comment.

Everything is about you unless it impinges the rights of someone else. That is what it means to have freedom. How does one's sexual orientation impinge upon the rights of another?

@@hvmetalwarmonger178 simple, they start indoctrination of my children in school, or go after an employer because they dare to have a different point of view, or teachers and professors getting fired because they question anything…..that’s all the left has done is go after the rights of others that differ from them…

I feel bad because most regular gays and lesbians and bisexual people are just normal people. They're not Frankie freaking Grande or Sam Smith. Yet unfortunately because they're under that LGBTQ umbrella they have to have these non-binary and gender fluid freaks attached to them. It makes it seem like you support this because it's your community.

Ever asked objectively, "why am I bisexual?". Would you have been bisexual had you been born 100 years ago? Probably not.

Of course you don't answer...

@@derp8575 Possibly he doesn't answer because there is no point in his answering. If he answered, "I think I still would have been," you would simply choose not to believe him. Or you'd believe that he believes it, but assume he is wrong. And why would you do that? Because on this topic, you are fantastically ignorant. Sexual orientation is determined overwhelmingly more by nature than nurture, no matter how desperately you want to believe otherwise. Believe what you wish. Go through life dripping with unwarranted certainty. You'll be part of the problem, but you won't lose any sleep over that.

LOL! You won't even debate me live. Nature is influenced by the 1%. Come at me or STFU, womanizer. @@P2Reflectschannel-hh2zl

He deserves the prize for Most Dishonest Pandering. Maher is simply practicing disingenuous deception and peddling harmful disinformation here. @0:32 ". . . and 20.8% of Gen Z." (identify as LGBTQ) @1:03 "All the babies are in the wrong bodies?" The acronymic "T", included in the Gallup 20.8% of Gen Z LGBTQ individuals, represents less than 2% of the U.S. Gen Z population who are transgender. Less than 2% is a vastly different concept/number from 100%, which Maher explicated with his untethered, "All the babies . . . ". Is there a term that applies for when one exponentially exaggerates hyperbole? @1:37 "The ACLU recently tweeted a list of those who would be disproportionately harmed by this (loss of abortion rights). You would think women might top that list, no. Wasn't even on the list. Second on the list was LGBT. Really? Abortion rights effects gay and trans people more than . . . you know, breeders?" What a disingenuously dishonest dickhead diatribe. The ACLU's unranked listing is as follows: ▪ Black, Indigenous & other people of color ▪ the LGBTQ community ▪ immigrants ▪ young people ▪ those working to make ends meet ▪ people with disabilities The ACLU erred in ascribing a reasonable level of intelligence and common sense to Maher and his producers. It seems apparent that the ACLU did not anticipate that people would miss the obvious . . . that abortion bans do "proportionately" harm all "individuals with uteri who can become pregnant" (at times incl. most women and many trans-men, some non-binary folks, etc.). Their list is clearly meant to identify the demographic subcategories of the population with potential for pregnancy, which would experience harm "disproportionately". @2:13 "Not everything's about you." @4:03 "Compared to trans, gay is practically cis and cis is practically Mormon." The messages here are that (1) trans people struggling for equal rights must mean they think everything's about them, what a nuisance and (2) that trans people, being abnormal, weird, strange or de minimis . . . outliers, compared to everyone else, specifically gays, cis people or Mormons, are perhaps worthy of marginalization or dismissal and unworthy of recognition, equal rights or necessary medical care. @2:35 "We're literally experimenting on children" @2:43 "We just don't know much about the long term effects." (of puberty blockers) "I don't understand parents who won't let their 9 yr old walk to the corner without a helmet, an epipen and a gps tracker. And god forbid their lips touch dairy, but . . . but hormone blockers and genital surgery . . . fine." Puberty blockers, administered with relative safety to children suffering from precocious puberty since the early 80's, are only ever prescribed on a temporary basis, for a limited time period, during which patients are monitored for adverse reactions and side effects like loss of bone density. They would not be prescribed for a child as young as 9 unless that child exhibited precocious puberty. Also, I challenge anyone to identify any case where a 9 yr old underwent genital sex reassignment surgery as Maher implies here. @5:45 "Either Ohio is shaming them or California is creating them." Ohio Republicans are again seeking to restrict gender-affirming health care for transgender youth and prevent transgender girls from competing in female sports. Does this kind of legislation promote shame? Arguably yes, or at least inhibitive feelings which negatively impact the free expression of the lives of trans people/youth. One would have to torture words and concepts to construe the legal protections for trans people codified in California law as "creating" transgender youth in any way. Anecdotally, I know of transgender young people who have moved to California because of the legal protections afforded them there. @8:54 "I wanted to be a pirate." If only he had simply desired to be thoughtful and carefully accurate.

The question is how did we have a 300% increase in 10 years? And how many letters are they going to add and doesn't the B stand for bi as in binary as in two? You people love your pseudo intellectualism guised as critical thinking 😂 You couldn't critically think your way out of a wet paper bag.

And how does the dumbass "humanitarian or peace award" come into doing oblivious, bigoted comedy?

He’s a less thicker Biden

Why not, they gave the nobel prize to Obama.

@@andreamadden9153 what da Fuk is your major malfunction? How is a Vietnamese cooking show relevant?

Eh I'm libertarian so I'm always half and half. So guess I won't ever get this it'll just be people I disagree with being sensible or possibly I find it out I may be wrong on something. You never know how these discussions, debates or arguments will go.

Huh?

Ok you've been heard now go away

You know not all liberals are stupid.

Why do you have a problem with Trans people?

Not necessarily, he says the amount of lgbtq people coming out nowadays is more than double what it was a few generations ago. This is true but then he takes it to the conclusion that by 2050 everyone would be lgbtq, this is a logical falicy at best. Not everyone is gay or trans or what have you and being such isn't something that can be taught or forced into existence at any age, we know this because being straight isn't something that can be taught or forced into existence at any age, believe me we tried. Conversion therapy even back when it's practices were blatantly tantamount to torture it still didn't work. If it didn't work for gays it won't work for straights plain and simple. Now that we have that out of the way, with increasing acceptance of lgbtq people you will predictably see an uptick in population that identifies as such, but after a certain point that number will plateau, same way it happened for left handed people in the 1920s and 1930s, (when before even then being left handed was considered taboo). We saw the same growing of general acceptance, individuals who came out, and the same predictable plateau. not all people are left handed and not all people are lgbtq, that fact will not change. As for the puberty blocker stuff, we have over 30 years of research already put into the effects of it especially in children, considering one of its original purposes was to treat early onset breast cancer in children. The only real danger that is consistent across the board is very rare cases of temporarily reduced bone density. A lot of context is left out here and I don't blame Bill at all for it considering not everyone knows about this stuff yet but I'd imagine after a session of answering some of these questions we can clear up a lot of the misconceptions

He didn't understand the LGBT community AT ALL in this clip, it is really disingenuous and insulting. It is not that suddenly more people want to be lgbt, it is simply they are more comfortable identifying that way. It's really shameful what he said here trying to say that is wrong over and over again...

@@draum8103 Oh, bullshit!

@@someguy7805 a sound argument

Which what's pretty funny about that, and here's the thing about previous generations of lgwifi password, is that it was about passing and blending in before, just like prior to the 2010s it was more about normalization and equal rights. Like nobody actually wanted to be outlandish than drag queens or whatever, most people were trying to pass or blend in and fly under the radar. This is the complete exact opposite. It's the same thing as with all these fake disorders, people with REAL disorders aren't trying to get attention, they are literally trying (and often failing) to do exactly the complete f'ing opposite which is to blend in. Like kids who have bipolar or narcolepsy or tourettes, the last thing ANY of those kids want to do is draw more attention to their disorder, it's unbelievably mortifying, you DON'T want people to know that you are depressed. Like with cutters, I think most cutters I knew had hidden them, some pretty well. This is why so many girls had them on inner thighs or ankles or some shit.

@@drek9k2 One thing to always remember is that society as a whole follows trends. If something is hip and wild and makes you seem interesting, others will start copying it. If anyone thinks that young people arent willing to alter their identity in order to elevate their social media standing, they are delusional. When I was a kid the only people who had tattoos were bikers, convicts and ex-military. Seriously. Then tattoos became a popular way to show how unique and rebellious you were and next thing you know, everyone has tattoos. People become addicted to them. What they are really addicted to is the attention. "Hey, check out my new piece". Look at dreadlocks in the NFL. Originally there were one or two guys with dreads. Then 5. Now its 20 guys per team and now dreads are popular and trending upwards in the gen pop. The ultimate irony is that things become trendy because they are unique, different. As soon as they become trendy the uniqueness is gone. People are so anxious to stand out and be unique, that they fall in line with all of the other 'unique' people. Same applies to this topic.

Conservative's care about your eternal soul. Please do not stop being the real you.

@Derp couldnt care about conservatives and religion still..lol

We have seen ex gays nothing natural about your behaviour

That's the problem isn't it... It used to be just fine wearing a dress as a guy (at least is was in my country) or being a woman who drove a truck. It was part of your personality. Now personality has disappeared in favor of a gender label. It's restrictive and damaging.

@angelavm84 what annoys me is that these people would say Gender is a social construct but when they wear a certain item of clothing, now they have to change their gender and change their pronouns.

Watch him 5 ten 15 years ago ....

I agree with you!

Simply the best clip I have seen in youtube in several years, I thought I was alone in thinking some of these things. Clearly not!

@@robc8593 ur not alone mate, you are never alone.

He articulates what I’ve been thinking for months!!

Yeah whatever Liberal

@@yardengali Well I suppose that's one point of view. But I am not just going to take things at face value. How do you know he is really criticizing them what if he is just being paid off by a higher force?

@@yardengali You know Corruption. Or even plotting some ambitious long shot political run?

@@yardengali Okay that's great... but he might literally be saying this for attention by point is how do you Maher is genuine?

@@castroowens1927 In your expert opinion, tell us how you know he's not genuine? Little history for you. Believe it or not, liberals from his generation are not the unhinged and mentally inept liberals under the age of 35 today. He's been consistently saying these things for years, go out do the research and get the answers for yourself.

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He's definitely on the left, he says so himself

@@darksoles1305 today's Left is so extremist, so far Left, that it leaves Bill somewhat in the center.

Neither are typical for one of the parties.

Only idiots are on the left or right. Aristotle said a long time ago: The Golden is in the middle. But idiots love ideologies and extremist.

I high doubt tucker can be as articulate

Tucker couldn’t pull it off so eloquently, plus he always looks like he’s constipated

@@TheCc064 Except for when he was with CNN carrying your water?

Tucker Carlson is a a Nazi is is sited in a racist hate crime.

@@TheCc064 I love tuck and that’s true as hell lmao

My fellow conservatives. Lets all be happy the far left whackadoodles are pushing people like Bill right into our laps

How did we let the world get to a point where I agree with things Bill Maher says?

@@flpanhead they say he's an OP 😆

I was thinking the same exact thing. I am a conservative and it is refreshing to see Bill. We do not see eye to eye but deep down we all seem to want similar things.

Exactly, 💯

Us bisexuals aren't either 😂

This is not left-leaning whatsoever. This is liberalism, the purgatory of sociopolitical positions. Calling this show left-anything in actual left spaces will get you laughed at and called out on your own conservativism so fast your head would spin. Left of Reagan =/= left just like west of the Appalachias =/= the west coast.

It's funny that he didn't know the main reason for this trend, Alex Jones has been telling people about it for years. I guess everyone dismisses him because he's so crazy about alot of other stuff, but even a broken clock is right twice a day. Plastic interferes with our hormones, and in the words of Alex Jones "It makes the frickin frogs gay!" (something it also does to us)

But they are not gender fluid.

So true man

udidnt waht it like this. but the other... whateva... dont listen to him... see.u man. said what did. confronted it.. admitted. u learned.. not complaining blaming others.

@@shawnbunn4966 WWHHAATT ? ?

It's not unpopular. Look at the like vs dislike ratio. Most people agree with this common sense stuff just don't have the balls to say it, probably because of the surgery.

@@childofvenus3781 unfortunately we can't see the dislikes on UKposts anymore... Been like that for months.

@@xdaniedx Yup, and it's all for "small content creators".

He's playing to the stupidity and ignores the history of same sex friendships and the criminality that once led to many to hide their passions away from societies laws and eyes. Of course the numbers of those willing to say they enjoy same sex friendships is rising due to the elimination of extreme laws that imprisoned and at time put people to death for these friendships. Maher should do some research into the history of same sex friendships and he may just find even Abraham Lincoln enjoyed same sex friendships. Perhaps even Maher himself at one time experimented but at his age he would have known if it was found out he'd either have been castrated or put in prison. WTFup folks. He's a comedian and a homophobe. Given his face I'm surprised he can attract a heterosexual friendship. He must have to pay for it.

@@bcinspectorman Typical alphabet bully: insists everyone who doesn't suck up to the LGBT crowd and accept every piece of far left, deviant, groomer garbage they demand you go along with is a homophobe and closet case. This is definitely proven in your case considering you completely ignored the part where Bill pointed out the increase in LGBT kids occurs far more disproportionately in liberal areas. Hmm, I guess they still have anti-sodomy laws in Omaha then?

Because it's true. The gender medical complex is a $5 billion industry and growing rapidly. There's nothing altruistic about it, and corporations jumping on the "pride" bandwagon has long been an obvious and offensive marketing scheme and little more to many gays and lesbians long before the TransQueer explosion. Look up transhumanism, it's even worse than it seems on the surface.

That's right. We need to stop relying on Bill and open our own mouths.

Yes, the tables are turning bit by bit. The LGBTQ movement is based on compassion and a need to be respected. Very little to do with the scum that leads the movement nowadays.

This isn't a woke issue... This is little kids are never allowed to decide any "ADULT" issue other than sexuality or gender... That's the most complex thing ever and an 8 year old will be 25 before they really understand... There are adults who are unsure... 8 year olds should be learning math, science and reading, not exploring the complexities of sexual identity...

He is part of the woke though...just not on certain issues. Maybe classical woke?

@@nightshades7921 Geez, you guys just steal everything.. Woke was originally about making BLACK PEOPLE realize certain things... Now it's all people who may not be racist assholes...

Congrats on agreeing with neo-Nazis.

This was profoundly funny and intelligent. All of a sudden Maher is the funniest guy. Being honest is not a bad idea in comedy

Liberalism is destroying the West.

You can thank Dave Chappelle for kicking down THAT door.

But even here he still uses their false narrative that they are somehow oppressed and "Marginalised" How? They are the most promoted and protected group in history and have special privileges through "diversity quotas" heterosexual people don't have. In fact "affirmative action" of any kind actually actively discriminates against people outside of the specified privileged groups. The most marginalised people across the West by far are white heterosexual working class men who are vilified 24/7, just supporting Trump is unprecedented extremism according to the US government! Before that they were deplorable and they are scapegoated for every single social issue in America, how is that not marginalised? Identity politics is the very definition of discriminating between groups based on religion, race, gender or sexual proclivity - something they pretend they are fighting. The more they divide, the more they have power and so they must perpetually invent new divisions and there fore a new oppressed class and new oppressor classes. Identity politics is the the mechanism for this and even where there may be a hint of real oppression it is hijacked by the high Priests and Priestesses of the cult of Political Correctness for their own self promotion and empowerment. Every individual within a so called minority group these people attach a label to has their individual voices stolen and are then forever "represented" by these antihuman, anti freedom, Marxian social engineers. There are plenty of gay men, for example, who disagree with the LGBT agenda but are now too frightened to speak out. They understand that they won the arguments for equality and now this is a war against the traditional family and decent civil society based on Christian ethos and morality. This is simply turning vast swathes of people against them and this anger is fermenting silently because speech and debate are so oppressed. The longer we allow the tyranny to continue and thrive the higher the price will need to be paid if we are ever to be free once more.

Similar story with my wife. My wife wore combat boots under her prom dress. Never wore makeup and her mom tells me she always came home with sticks in her hair. Only ever wore T shirts and jeans for all of school. Then when she got into college, she gradually started getting more feminine, and now she won't leave the house with makeup and looking "cute". People change, especially kids.

As a Texan, Texas is like a cult. We all love it so much. But some of the laws are dumb af.

ok lets not get carried away, she wouldnt hurt a fly much less a boy.

This was EXACTLY me as a kid. My mom and I fought over clothing constantly!! I played sports with the boys and could hold my own, but grew up to occasionally wear a dress happily, never questioned that I was a female or that I liked boys. I am proud to be female, but didn't want to be girly is all.

@@tiffanyq.6004 nothing prideful in being female

Agreed

I agree. Nothing worse than having a civil debate with a leftist only to have one of my fellow conservatives come along and say the dumbest thing you've ever heard. Like "thanks man you just invalidated everything I was saying"

No one from the left calls out the left.

What are you conserving tho? Low tax rates for ppl who hate you?

Exactly 💯

Ask them why the life expectancy of a transgender person is roughly 10 years less than a biological gender person. Ask them as well what peer-reviwed studies on higher cancer incidence on trans people are available.

Not the best line on a weekly show you host named after yourself

Lucky he's in his position or you'll.get some full blown false ramble about hardships being experienced only by LGBT people.

@@todd1928 Last time I checked he doesn't go around whining about all the possible ways in which things are deeply against him. His program, his choice. No wait, that's someone else's argument...

@@Ancestralwish he constantly whines about the things that annoy him. That's what most of his new rules segment is about.

@@todd1928 Yeah. That's the job description. Make fun of everything you find nonsensical and ridiculous. It's still not about him, it's about the ridiculousness AROUND him.

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Now all most think whether or not they'll admit or say it, is... RICH.

and they would be wrong.

Woah! Boom! Reddit moment

Funny thing is that as a gay guy, I don’t think I’m alone in wondering why anyone has made it about us; I certainly didn’t ask for it.

100% LGBTQ+ by 2060? so if this guy in the video is still alive then, HE will be? And you too J Michael Wherley.. Yes. you too.

I verbally said, “thank you!” When I heard that.

If you look closer into the statistics of the study about this LGTBQ rise among younger people, it's interesting to note that the group of persons identifying as bisexual is rising by far the most. I'm gay and have the suspicion that it's a certain group of woke people: For example I know a number of young feminists who claim to be bisexual, yet always end up with a boyfriend! And I ask myself if they only claim their bisexuality for "street credibility" among woke people and to "have it about them"?

My first thought when I heard people talking about LGBT and abortion rights

@T. Tony, ummmm ... then who should the investigations and decisions in one's own life be about? Is the inference that somehow it's a community enterprise?

@@pa3997 I know so many women who claim to be bi because they made out with some women drunk at a few parties. I absolutely agree with your comment. I have never seen them with a women outside of parties, drugs and alcohol.

Under rated comment right here

You are created man or woman you're not created to be gay.

@@vickymcpherson7985 Uh, OK. You don't even understand the categories so you're comment is staggeringly dimwitted. Also perhaps you can explain same sex attraction in nature, which is well documented.

First they will dispose the G, then the L... the red tide is coming. At least we will watch a lot of "purges" within the reds. 🍿🍿🍿

Gay people still exist. Lesbians still exist. Making room for others doesn't need to take away anything from you.

Parents are now allowing kids to tell the parents who they want to be. Then off to visit somebody with a degree on the wall to tell them. Little semi-babies were never meant to tell parents what gender they should be. Now a lot of them are trying to turn back. In the meantime, people are being told they are mean and have a phobia towards these kids. I agree with Maher, because he’s right and it’s simply common sense! He’s got it right this time. What other big life-altering decisions should little kids be making! The latest thing is trans-species, you believe you were born the wrong species! ☹️

When I was young I wanted to be Merlin the magician

G E N d u h R D Y S 4 I A isamen TALL ilness

… we we hope it never change. When I was 10 I believed if I kiss my elbow I would turn into a boy. When I turn 15, the thought of being a boy made me nauseous. So I have emotions of fluid. We need to allow children the space to dream.

​@@gwendolyngardner6037 Wow. I thought I was hot shit with my vials, bottles, glasses, and general vessels of fluid. Meanwhile Gwendolyn over here has full on emotions of fluid.

I'm not trans I have a few friends who are too. And I have 1 former friend of a friend of a friend who claims to be trans but it was a more recent thing in the last year or so. He is a former friend for a reason. He was/is a huge proponent of allowing the hormone treatments and surgeries for kids and allowing drag shows in schools. They were recently sentenced to prison on pedophile charges. The kids involved WERE THE SAME ONES HE'D "ENCOURAGE" TO "BE THEMSELVES and follow through with their feelings". He was 100% a groomer and a horrible POS who I hope some inmates will "take care of him".

How do you tell the difference between someone who truly found themselves and someone that hasn't? We're all more malleable than we think.

"There are a lot of people doing it for trends, excluding others, and not realizing how deep the bodily transition is and coming to regret it." While it is demonstrable that some small percentage of kids, specifically, not adults generally, may be unduly influenced by peer pressure, care-givers have become adept at identifying them. Those who are not actually trans do not manifest the hallmark qualities of "consistent, persistent and insistent" claims of, and discomfort with, their bodies as not being congruent with their gender experience, in the same way and degree evinced by trans kids. I've not seen any studies supporting your assertion that the two bad reasons you cite apply to, "a lot of people". Also, I'm skeptical of your claim of anyone's reasoning being based on the desire to exclude others, if that is indeed what you meant. This seems somewhat bizarre, especially in light of the trans population being THE group experiencing the codification of actual exclusion from crucial aspects of our society. There has been a virtual pandemic of increasingly draconian laws sweeping our nation which foment ever escalating levels of transphobia and transmisia, including that of many elected leaders. Apropo of just what, I'm not sure, but it is interesting the range where some choose the full complement of gender affirming treatments and surgeries while others seem most satisfied occupying the other extreme with a full spectrum in between. While all are low, the percentages of regret being reported do vary. By way of comparison, the number of those regretting transition is less than regrets from knee and hip replacement, for example. It is most relevant to remark that, according to a study by the NIH, as I recall it was 87% of those who detransitioned reported at least one external factor accounting for their regret. That is, after transitioning, they suffered from a lack of support, often facing opposition from, family, friends, co-workers/employers, landlords, roommates, medical caregivers, clergy and society in general. This detrimentally affected their lives in very real ways, including the provision of vital needs like housing, job/income and medical care. Sensationalized reports ascribing regret to internal concerns, e.g., one's gender confusion, while lamentable, represent a de minimis minority. Any policy prohibiting provenly efficacious, life-saving treatments to benefit an overwhelming majority of patients, having as its basis the terribly unfortunate anecdotal outcomes of a small few, is tantamount to malpractice. I'm confidant that there is widespread agreement that explicit diligence is necessary for potential applicants of any medical treatment, that they and/or their parents/guardians comprehend significant implications as fully as possible. GnRH analogues being commonly prescribed to children facing puberty are in lieu of commencement of medical transition, allowing all parties more time to determine if and how to proceed with treatment. (I've explicated elsewhere, in a detailed point-by-point factual debunking of Maher's harmful, hate-pandering ignorance. This gratuitous piece, perfidiously played for cheap laughs, is a product of disingenuous dishonesty, at the expense of the trans community.)

Get mental help

Find a psychiatrist for your mental illness

Agreed 💯

he would have had balls if he said this 5 years ago

Canned laughter

@@kalidass1 No it is real, I was there.

The funny thing is, is Bill's audience is laughing and clapping, yet most of them are the ones doing this bullshit.

It’s still sad that anything he said is now considered brave

My brother is gay. So I grew up with a gay person. My brother has been telling me that we have some problems right now. And also he doesn't like to be put into a box with everyone else. The LGBTQ box. He doesn't like being classified and clarified and stuffed into a box full of people he has nothing in common with. That's what he thinks. I I don't really know.

I'm generally conservative (however that's defined, I guess), but I have been surprised by how many writers, commentators and other public personalities who I really like are in fact gay. And I guess for me that means, no, I'm not homophobic for not being terribly comfortable with the idea of an over-the-top gay parade, just as I wouldn't be comfortable in a strip club... or any club really. My cup of tea is.... a cup of tea. Everyone is an individual. But so much of our culture of "either/or" says that on such an issue I must either be "pro-all gays" or "anti-gay". It's bizarre.

@@TheBandit7613 I completely agree with your brother. As a gay man I also resent being classified with people I have nothing in common with.

Yes. I agree with you.

@@daveh893 The point of being classified together is to fight collectively for rights against people who want you dead, jailed or back in the closet. What you have in common is the fight for your rights.

You people say this but you’d prob would assume a guy in a skirt or makeup is some sort of trans

@@Dolphinboi I try not to assume anything. We are all free to be who we are. That is at least the way it should be. Love ourselves and each other is the best possible outcome. Unfortunately, more and more people do not like that kind of talk. Peace.

We have to get over having "touchy" subjects. People's refusal to speak up on these horrors is why it's gone this far. Having freedom means being able to say No. It's time to fight for the boundaries we threw away. Biden told us on the campaign trail what he was going to do with women's sports, prisons and pediatric gender care, still 81 million people said sure, why not?

...have you read the headlines today? Anyone politically left of Ronald Regan is attacking Bill Maher with the same fervor they have recently reserve for Elon Musk

Remove all straight relationships from kids shows too then. No more Disney movies, nothing

Being LGBTQ is not an adult decision. Letting them be who they are is Letting children be children

'Trans' is not innate and there is no such thing as a trans child--they may be gender non-conforming but that does not make them trans or born in the wrong body--they may just be gay or lesbian when they grow up or not but just leave the kids alone.

Only took him... 7 years.

I'm from Tahoe and I'm trans. They're not doing genital surgery on children. Everything else he said is more or less right.

@@sibylsaint I don't believe you!!!!!!

@@Ron-io1hh Then prove they're doing the surgery. And yes, I'm from Tahoe. Born and raised.

You know it .

Maher is the definition of a gr00mer

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Just give the award to conservatives instead, Maher took embarrassingly long getting here

hahahahaha! this was funny.

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IKR.....you dont seriously consider anything a kid says.....its mostly due to their environment that determines what they want.....they could just be emulating Ru Paul.....just no surgery or drugs till theyre 21 ok?

100% agree with you@@weedthepeople2795! Medically, it's been proven through various studies, that the human brain isn't fully developed until our mid-twenties! Even then, I'm still not sure we make "good decisions". 😉

Not really, since no one ever grows up to be a pirate, but lots of people are or “ turn out to be “ LGBTQ. Bill’s statement is like when a racist says they don’t care if your white, black, green, purple whatever… making an unrealistic joke scenario. Time to evolve.

me too...

Too bad the LA set kicked Owen Benjamin out of orbit for the same real take on protecting kids.

Don't forget he helped to spread this progressive bullshit by telling conservatives to shut up for years. He's just late to the party. I can't really absolve him just yet.

He knows the pendulum is swinging and he wants to keep relevant....

I'm still disappointed in Conan for going along with all this crap.

pedos: "ive been trying to tell you guys this for years!!!"

The sad thing is you would think this is wife spread knowledge. It’s easily accessible and verifiable but these fuxkin ppl are oblivious to it

I find it troubling that people need this to be explained to them.

This is absolutely true and exactly the proof that everything we are as people/members of society is socially and environmentally conditioned. "Women" are what we teach them to be and men the same. The fact that not everyone installs the programming in exactly the same way is precisely what tells us that our variation is environmental, not biological.

@@Blox117 Whats that?! I can't hear you over this woodchipper!

I honestly don’t think people are scared of saying this. I just think that to argue over common sense things with people without common sense seems like a huge waste of time and energy. I am not going to convince someone of my point of view if they think this stuff is normal. I accept that and focus on what matters in my world. Now, saying that, it is spreading to kids and that is something that people need to start standing up against. But again, I don’t think it is fear. Usually the people with the most fear are the ones that speak the loudest and try to force their opinion the most. THAT is why I think we are hearing so much more from the side that is clearly having deep internal issues that they are trying to slap a bandaid on with these unnatural tactics

The saddest part of all this controversy is how many cowards we have now. Absolutely sad

Perhaps if not a lot of people are saying what you're thinking they don't think that way.

@@TransmentalMe Have you been under a rock? Maybe step outside your circle because everyone (including democrats) are running away from the far left. Bout time too, they've been fooling

it's true. i hate to think of myself as being afraid to speak, but i ALWAYS hold my tongue at work and even out in the world depending on the company being kept at the time. at the place i work, if they merely even knew how i felt about this ridiculousness, they would immediately start seeking a way to fire me. i've been there eleven years and they would let me go in an instant without a single care. and they wouldn't let me say goodbye to friends or coworkers or even announce my departure t until weeks down the road (seen this happen many times). the world is dangerous for free-thinkers nowadays.

I’m a liberal…the extremes of both parties are messing up everything. Both sides now have to cater to the wack-jobs on the extremes to win the primary.

I feel literally the exact same way lol

Interestingly, he feels the same way about you! He had a decent interview with Ben Shapiro on the Sunday Special, btw. Surprisingly!

It’s the extremes getting louder. We contribute to that when we stereotype the way you just did and I have also done.

Yep....if Maher is not careful, he is going to turn into MAGA overnight...look what happened to Elon....

Uhh. I been Democrat for 20 of my 36 years on this earth. I am now an independent. There a lot of good voices on the center right. But apparently that makes me a racist to my friends who are too prideful to challenge their own party. They’re lapdogs.

Not only is it a "thing", its more common than you think. Most of us here are anti-woke liberals I would say.

Yes--that's a thing. It's the new Walkaway movement. I'd describe Bill that way. It's been enjoyable the past two years watching him get red pilled. Personally, I've walked away from the Democrat party, as have millions of others.

@@tparbs The problem is that republicans remained the same. They didn't become classical liberals. A lot of them are still very conservative.

Oh, boy, is that ever a thing. Thank goodness! Thought I was the only liberal out here saying, "If that's woke, I'm sleeping in"!

Didn't you hear the man? No one has any balls anymore lol

Agreed

it indeed is, we will win over these pedophile ideologists, they wont get any further

@@81kikyo exactly

Literally all the right ever talked about since the 1800s.

Its an analysis that has been around for a while now. Its only new to those in a left wing echo chamber.

@@cstuartdc "Fox news sycophants" anyone who talks like that is not a free thinker, they are just a programmed puppet of one of the two sides. If you can't see the EXACT same absurd bias in nearly all MSM media going the other way then you are a blind. Neither side has an inch of space to criticizes the other media, one is just as bad as the other and neither side can claim the high moral ground. You say you are concerned about economic issues but you seem utterly clueless that your own side has by design given us record inflation, record gas prices, empty shelves, mothers cannot even get baby formula. We are seeing the biggest economic collapse in an entire generations and the end and bottom is still no where in sight. And ONE PARTY has all the power in the house, senate and WH. And they clearly have no answers of any kind. Just blame everyone on earth but themselves and their own polices. So people can no longer afford gas and food or the power bill, all the shelves are empty, mothers can't get baby formula......but hey, at least there are no more means tweets! Its worth it! See you in the breadline next week! Utter lunacy. And you can't see any of it because you are chained and brainwashed by identity and party politics.

Chris, My husband and I laughed so much we had to pull out our scuba tanks for O2👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

Master Blaster, I am a liberal gay man and do not get your comment. But , I absolutely agree with Bill👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

In 1900 less than 3 percent of people identified as being left handed, probably because it was know as the Devils hand and kids were forced to use their right hands. Now its around 10 percent. Surprise, surprise, turns out when something is heavily demonized fewer people will want to admit to it, but when its socially accepted more people will admit to it.

Dr Spock never had kids

You don't have to be a lumber jack to tell if a tree being cut down is going to fall on a house or not. Just like you don't need to have kids to realize that forcing kids into something they don't fully understand is wrong. Example: I don't need to have kids to know that people that molest kids are bad or that the kids are going to have a hard time afterwards.

(Some) Things are even easier to overview with a proper distance. 😉

Cause it's always been a cope for bad parents to say "you can't understand you don't have kids" when someone brings a critical well thought out argument for why their strategy sucks.

They got sucked in by the compassion plea of the Trans folks. They claim their suicide rate is linked to lack of acceptance. But that makes no sense. Plenty of straights like me lack acceptance or support from their parents on any number of lifestyle issues including our job choice, partner choice, religion or political party. We aren't committing suicide like the trans folks. Understand why people go along with this and address it. The Left have become masters of emotional manipulation

I was more feminine between the ages of 8 and 12. Liked to play with dolls, Barbie’s etc.. If my parents encouraged it and pushed a gender change I’d be screwed up.

@@Charlemagnetheman Same here. For a few years I insisted I wanted to be a girl. Turns out I just wanted to be treated lke a girl: be allowed to express emotions freely, like whatever I liked, be protected from violence. I'm now a pretty "straight acting" gay man. Being trans is a very serious condition, it's not a fun trendy thing. One should always hope a child uneasiness with their gender is somthing else. Transitionning is a last resort.

@@vincentphilippart4669 from what I understand, gender dysphoria is one of the worst things that a person can experience. Check out the case of “Dr. Money and the boy with no penis”. I have all the compassion in the world for people who suffer from this problem. I can only imagine that kind of hell. But I totally agree with you, maybe if we close the disparities between how men and women are socialized, it could solve a lot of personal issues. I think the way we raise men to repress their emotions is beyond awful. I can understand your perspective.

​@@vincentphilippart4669 Feel you, i'm a straight guy, but growing up i was a "soft boy" as they say. I would cry easily. As an adult, i became much more in control of my emotions. Luckly, when i was a kid, there wasnt people saying that it meant i should transition just cause i liked to write poetry and had feelings

What about those LGBT kids who can't control their feelings and who they are? It's not acceptable to leave them in the dark, Florida's homophobic bill will lead to increased rates of suicide among LGBT youth.

Maher is simply disingenuously dishonest here. @0:32 ". . . and 20.8% of Gen Z." (identify as LGBTQ) @1:03 "All the babies are in the wrong bodies?" The acronymic "T", included in the Gallup 20.8% of Gen Z LGBTQ individuals, represents less than 2% of the U.S. Gen Z population who are transgender. Less than 2% is a vastly different concept/number from 100%, which Maher explicated with his untethered, "All the babies . . . ". Is there a term that applies for when one exponentially exaggerates hyperbole? @1:37 "The ACLU recently tweeted a list of those who would be disproportionately harmed by this (loss of abortion rights). You would think women might top that list, no. Wasn't even on the list. Second on the list was LGBT. Really? Abortion rights effects gay and trans people more than . . . you know, breeders?" What a disingenuously dishonest dickhead diatribe. The ACLU's unranked listing is as follows: ▪ Black, Indigenous & other people of color ▪ the LGBTQ community ▪ immigrants ▪ young people ▪ those working to make ends meet ▪ people with disabilities The ACLU erred in ascribing a reasonable level of intelligence and common sense to Maher and his producers. It seems apparent that the ACLU did not anticipate that people would miss the obvious . . . that abortion bans do "proportionately" harm all "individuals with uteri who can become pregnant" (at times incl. most women and many trans-men, some non-binary folks, etc.). Their list is clearly meant to identify the demographic subcategories of the population with potential for pregnancy, which would experience harm "disproportionately". @2:13 "Not everything's about you." @4:03 "Compared to trans, gay is practically cis and cis is practically Mormon." The messages here are that (1) trans people struggling for equal rights must mean they think everything's about them, what a nuisance and (2) that trans people, being abnormal, weird, strange or de minimis . . . outliers, compared to everyone else, specifically gays, cis people or Mormons, are perhaps worthy of marginalization or dismissal and unworthy of recognition, equal rights or necessary medical care. @2:35 "We're literally experimenting on children" @2:43 "We just don't know much about the long term effects." (of puberty blockers) "I don't understand parents who won't let their 9 yr old walk to the corner without a helmet, an epipen and a gps tracker. And god forbid their lips touch dairy, but . . . but hormone blockers and genital surgery . . . fine." Puberty blockers, administered with relative safety to children suffering from precocious puberty since the early 80's, are only ever prescribed on a temporary basis, for a limited time period, during which patients are monitored for adverse reactions and side effects like loss of bone density. They would not be prescribed for a child as young as 9 unless that child exhibited precocious puberty. Also, I challenge anyone to identify any case where a 9 yr old underwent genital sex reassignment surgery as Maher implies here. @5:45 "Either Ohio is shaming them or California is creating them." Ohio Republicans are again seeking to restrict gender-affirming health care for transgender youth and prevent transgender girls from competing in female sports. Does this kind of legislation promote shame? Arguably yes, or at least inhibitive feelings which negatively impact the free expression of the lives of trans people/youth. One would have to torture words and concepts to construe the legal protections for trans people codified in California law as "creating" transgender youth in any way. Anecdotally, I know of transgender young people who have moved to California because of the legal protections afforded them there. @8:54 "I wanted to be a pirate." If only he had simply desired to be thoughtful and carefully accurate.

I understand. You think gay guys have it bad, real lesbians have practically disappeared.

A good friend of mine, who happens to be gay, said he and his husband finally think they understand what conservatives must feel like as they've been repeatedly shunned at LGBTQ+ events for being mockingly addressed as, and I quote, "The 'straight white males of the LGBTQ community'" and barely tolerated. He said, "I thought our movement was about equality? It seems more like it's about claiming victimhood." And he's not wrong.

@@chino3796 what the heck is a "real lesbian"? you mean TERF's ?

@@DoomMomDot An amazingly prejudicial/bigoted comment.

​@@DoomMomDot It takes a pretty vile and homophobic person to twist " protecting (gay) kids from lifelong medical patienthood, chemical castration and irreversible surgery" into "you don't give a crap about anybody else". Vile and homophobic indeed. And dumb.

He isn't courageous, he is trying to get more viewers. He is a coward for deliberately misrepresnting facts and issues here

His Atheism is the source of his strength.

@@samuelj2k323 misrepresentating what facts?

Damn right!

@@samuelj2k323 Uh, no. You are just ignorant of the facts

I said this to another person but, I think it was pretty dumb. why are there more LBGT people? Cause it's more acceptable, pretty simple. And then engaging in reworked old school homophobic rhetoric to attack trans by claiming it's simply for attention is super weird for a liberal to do. Like honestly this stuff has similar vibes to old school histaria around "reefer madness"

the reaction? the audience is a bunch of NPCs following signs on when to clap or laugh.

Right, but you have to realize that these treatments can and do help some people. We need parents and adults to treat this issue in a balanced manner. We shouldn't just ban the treatments because currently some people who receive them later regret it. We need to do better so that people who are genuinely LGBTQ+ are accepted and receive the care they need while at the same time preventing children who aren't LGBTQ+ from believing they are. It's OK to question things, but the vast majority of friends I have in the LGBTQ+ community knew they were different between the ages of 4 & 10 and knew their preferred attraction by ages 8-12. The only ones who didn't realize it til later were people who were extremely sheltered and emotionally - and sometimes sexually - abused as children. We must raise children to live authentically and honestly and to let them know it's okay to be unsure about things and just to live life and love everyone... And to keep them off of toxic social media!

@@bumblebootwiddletoes5185 puberty blockers aren’t helping anyone you can’t screw with nature and expect to be ok there are health consequences

@@bumblebootwiddletoes5185 ok groomer

​@Razo narcissistic bs? wanting to be accepted for who you are and having your humanity respected on the most basic level and not wanting to be murdered (and having communities actually care to solve your murder when you are murdered) is "narcissistic bs"..... wow

Bit of a leap

Even as a left leaning individual I agreed with everything he said

why are you scared though, I've been saying just this for five years.

@@timothyp7300 “murdered” Who is murdering who? I thought the excuse for pushing this on regular kids was suicide? It’s weird that gender dysphoria which was considered a mental illness just a few years ago, is now pushed onto children at schools. “Okay class! It’s now time to confuse you about gender. You may have been taught that you’re a boy or girl, but you can be what you want to be. You can even change on a daily basis. Don’t worry - this won’t damage you in any way - which is why I don’t want you to tell your parents I’m psychologically damaging you and grooming you into this cult.”