Well, I want to talk about trans
athletes and
trans athletes bans because that's
something that it's still,
I remember being on pop trigger
on TYT, four years ago and that
discussion was bubbling under then.
Of course, it's been an issue for
years, but like many things,
people weren't talking about it
in mainstream,
weren't talking about it as more,
as prevalent as they are now.
But this has been the worst year in
recent history for
anti-LGBTQ plus legislation.
So far 17 anti-LGBTQ bills
have been signed into law.
Senate bill 29 would have mandated
that transgendered student athletes
play sports teams based on their
sex assigned at birth of their
gender identity.
Now the bill's proponents said it
was necessary to protect
girls sports, arguing that allowing
transgender girls to play on school
sports teams gave them an unfair
advantage because they have higher
levels of testosterone.
Now, I'm going to throw to you
Canella on this, Chime in please
because, I think this is crazy but
here we are >> Yeah, definitely.
I think asinine is absolutely
the correct way to describe
it just because these trans
athlete bans are really horrific.
Because one, they're not based in
any kind of science,
it's very much pseudoscience.
Because sex, as we're coming to now
know more and more so,
is not this linear,
there's two biological sexes and
that's it, right?
It's more of a spectrum just like
gender is a spectrum.
These bills completely ignore
the existence of intersex people.
Let's start there, right?
And the fact that intersex athletes
compete every day, all day.
And I think that it's also, even if
we're not looking at the species
science that it's based on, I think
that at the end of the day this is
really harmful for trans kids.
Because suicide rates will go
up when trans children aren't
being affirmed in who they are, and
are actively being told
by lawmakers, no, this isn't
who you are, you're lying.
And also in addition to, sorry,
go ahead.
>> No, no, continue [INAUDIBLE].
>> Yeah, absolutely.
Well, just in terms of if you look
at studies that show that when
trends show children aren't
affirmed, whether that be at home,
whether that being
their environment,
it really determines what their
adulthood is going to look like.
They tend to struggle more
with depression, anxiety,
suicidal ideations.
And transgender kids already face
so much, even if we're not adding
these barriers that are being added
by literal lawmakers,
that are attacking actual children.
It's disgusting.
It's reprehensible.
>> Reprehensible
is absolutely the word, Plastic.
>> It's an attack on us.
Again, I know from experience
because I transitioned at five.
So, my entire life,
I've just been a girl.
And to have strangers come up
to you and tell you, no, you're not
you and you can't do this and
you can't do that.
It's heartbreaking, and it's scary,
and it's sad, and I just my heart
breaks for all these young trans
kids who are not getting to evolve
the way we should be evolving.
They're stuck in this prison and
there's no reason for it.
We have the knowledge,
we have the education,
this ignorance is just,
there's no excuse for it.
>> Plastic, you just said that
you transitioned at five.
Take through the journey of your
life, if you don't mind.
Because I think that's important
for our viewing audience to know
your story.
And at such a young age and
people have argued that young that
young children aren't aware, able
to have that distinction of gender
identity, but
clearly that is not the case.
Please tell us more.
>> Yeah, clearly they haven't
had a trans child.
I started actually vocalising and
even younger I was about two and
a half.
And luckily I have a very
supportive mother who has two
masters in psychology and
is my best friend.
And that saved my life,
was having one parent who really
understood and saw me for me.
That makes the biggest
difference in the world.
So again, this is gone 30 now.
So this is going back years and
years and years ago when we
didn't have the education
that we have now.
So I didn't even know who I was, or
what I was, or
how I fit into society.
I just knew I was in
the wrong body.
So, I didn't even call it
transgender.
I just lived as female.
I presented as female in my
entire life.
And then around my late teens,
I started on hormone replacement
therapy and then got my gender
confirmation surgery [INAUDIBLE].
But, I know from experience that I
don't have an excess level of
testosterone.
In fact, I don't produce any
testosterone and
I have to take testosterone cream
because I don't make testosterone.
So the things that these people are
saying, they're false narratives,
they're lies, it's misinformation
and it's all damaging
to us who are actually living it.
So I wish people who are not trans
would just shut up and let us be
because we're not hurting anybody.
You're the ones hurting us.
>> Well, we wish someone would shut
up and that is Fox News
because they cannot stop talking
about this issue.
Now Fox has aired more discussions
about trans athletes in the first
three months of 2021, than in
the last two years combined.
Now Fox aired at least 126
discussions.
Close to 130 discussions you guys,
about transgender athletes from
January 2019 through March 2021,
including 72 discussions that aired
in the first three months of this
year alone, alone.
More than twice as many as in 2019
and 2020.
I'm not surprised by this.
Are we surprised that Fox News?
No, we're not.
This is what they do.
They hop on.
They are I shouldn't say something
untruthful.
But Fox News, they continue
the rhetoric on anything that is
damaging, as you said Plastic,
to LGBTQIA plus, to trans,
to [INAUDIBLE] identical people,
to women, to people of color.
That's just what they do.
They have producers,
at least in my opinion.
This is in my own opinion and
producers and people within
the building there looks like,
today, how can we be the crappiest
humans and attack the non crappy
humans, right?
That's what they do.
Hope, hope, that's all what we can
only hold on to, right?
With everything that we've been
through in the last 15 months.
[COUGH] And everything
that the LGBTQ plus community has
been through in our existence.
Adrian, what's your hope for
the future in regards to trends and
the LGBTQ plus experience?
>> Well, Kenneth,
as Canalla had mentioned,
it's the mental health aspect that
is hurting primarily children,
trans-children who want to compete
and want to be involved in sports
and want to be accepted and
embraced as they are.
The Trevor Project recently
did a research study and they found
that more than nine out of ten,
LGBTQ plus youth,
said recently, that the politics
that are going on have negatively
affected their mental health.
There has been a spike in feelings
of suicide within the last year.
42% of the kids said that
they've considered it.
And it's just so
incredibly important that people
educate themselves but
also stop listening to this
Fox News us, them narrative.
Because that's what's being
pushed and it's very problematic.
And I do want to give kind of
a shout out out there just because
it's a good friend's documentary
that just came out today, debuted.
It's called, changing the game.
It's an award winner.
It's on Hulu.
It's an original Hulu
documentary now.
And it premiered today so
please go to Hulu, get education,
get information, especially as it
concerns the trans-athlete kind of
controversies that's
full of a lot of lies.
And you can also hide to my
girlfriend's YouTube page,
Palo Ward, she just
put up an amazing video on it.
But yeah, get
the information you need.
>> Get the information you need.
Canalla, any last words?
>> Yeah, absolutely.
I think that I really would
love a future in which trans kids
are able to just exist as they
are and trans people aren't reduced
to just our bodies.
And we're able to just exist safely
and peacefully without a fear of
violence, particularly for
trans people of color.
>> Right, right plastic.
>> Dead, on, I honestly, I want to
be able to walk out of my door and
not wonder if today is the day
that I'm going to be the target of
a hate crime.
And I have so much privilege in my
life, I'm not excusing that, and
still I'm afraid for my safety.
I live in a wonderful neighborhood
and I have a lot of privilege and
I am still afraid for
my life because I'm transgender.
I walk down the street and
I wonder, does that person know
that I'm trans?
Does that person recognize me?
Is that person going to,
they're looking at me funny,
are they going to come after me?
And it's a constant fear and
people just don't get it.
>> Right.
>> All my friends.
They're just,
you're being ridiculous.
No, I'm not.
I can't travel to this
certain country.
I can't go to this neighborhood.
I can't go here.
It's not safe for me.
And I want to live in that life.
And I want other people to live in
a world where
that doesn't exist and
they don't have to feel that way.
So, I just hope that I can make
a little bit of a difference for
the future generation of trans kids
that they have it a little bit
easier than I and other people did.