“Most obviously separating maleness and femaleness from genetics is scientifically illiterate. To say that a biological male is a gendered female is a basic contradiction in terms. A biological male may have feminine characteristics. He is still a biological male. We all know many men who are effeminate. We also know many women who are masculine. It does not mean that the woman is a man or the man is a woman. That’s just silly talk. Is transgenderism a condition from birth that is genetically uncoded and unchangeable? Well, the argument would be yes. People are born like this. They’ve lived like this all of their lives. For a certain subset of the population, I’m sure that this condition is in fact genetic and unchanging, but let’s remember that 80 percent of all children who supposedly have gender confusion grow out of it by the time they hit teenage years. Is transgenderism a mental disorder? Of course it is, and it was defined as a mental disorder by the DSM until about four years ago when politically correct doctors decided to switch the definition of mental disorder itself. So originally a mental disorder was just anything that was obviously at odds with reality, and then they switched it to be anything at odds with reality that also causes depression. So in other words, if you are a schizophrenic, but it doesn’t cause you some sort of difficulty in your everyday life, you are not mentally ill. Right? It’s difficulty in your everyday life that we link to mental illness. Otherwise, you can believe that your head is a toaster, and if you’re living a happy, fine life then everything is hunky-dory, and you don’t have a mental disorder. Transgenderism, gender identity disorder, gender dysphoria, this is a form of body dysmorphia just like anorexia or body identity integrity disorder. You’re anorexic. You are not fat. You believe you are fat. This does not mean that you are a fat person. This means you are an anorexic. Okay? If you have body identity integrity disorder, you have two arms. You believe that you are a one armed person in the body of a two armed person. This does not actually mean that you are a one armed person in the body of a two armed person. It means that you have a mental disorder. Now, the reason that I stress all this is not to be mean. It is not. It is to be straight in our diagnosis. We would never treat any other disorder this way. My grandfather suffered from schizophrenia and bipolarity. He was treated with lithium. If society had simply decided, “You know what, Nate? The radio is talking to you. The curtains are trying to strangle you.” He would’ve been worse off. Not only that. When an entire society decides that it is going to redefine basic terminology about biological sex, in order to make room for the sensitivity of certain numbers of people who are suffering, you are doing great damage to the fundamental distinctions that lie at the root of society. Plus, you’re confusing kids. Okay? You don’t actually get to teach my four and a half year old daughter that she can be a boy.”