Korryn Dickie, she's the daughter of an Iowa state senator, and
she's gone viral over talking about how she is basically
disowning her father after he attacked the right to choose.
Makes a lot of sense. Let's go straight into this because
she jumped on TikTok, and she said this, I had to cut my dad off.
See, I'm a bisexual pieces, and he's a republican state senator
who contributed to taking my rights as a woman away and
the possibility of me being able to marry the girl of my dreams one day.
That was posted on Tuesday and Internet sleuths, of course, jumped right on it and
said, we can figure out who your father is an Iowa state senator.
Let's see, what's your name?
Her father, his name is Adrian Dickey,
probably took about seven to ten seconds worth of the sleuths to work.
And he's obviously now also a candidate for
Iowa State Senate District 44 as you see there.
He was one of 60 legislators who urged the Iowa Supreme Court to overturn the 2018
planned parenthood versus Reynolds ruling which affirmed abortion as
a constitutional right in that state.
Korryn later posted some follow-up TikTok since everyone was paying attention.
She's like, sure, I have more to say is what she said next.
Yeah, I'm cutting my dad off for good this time.
Of course, I still want a dad, but I have cut him off before and
nothing has changed.
I'm done hoping for change when it's never gonna happen.
I mean, it's doing what democrats are thinking every time they see something go
wrong, they go, let's try that again.
And tell them we're gonna work on it better.
So in another TikTok,
she also revealed that she came out to her father as bisexual.
She mentioned off the talk on top and
then when he supported a ban on trans athletes in sports.
She told the Daily Dot via Instagram direct message that she came out
as bisexual to her dad that during the bill's passing,
because she wasn't OK with what was happening.
And he essentially just dismissed her.
She said her relationship with her father made her developed post-traumatic stress
disorder and said he was abusive while she was growing up.
When she was a teenager, she refused to speak to her father.
She says it was purely no contact, out of fear, is what she wrote.
She says she let him back into her life in March of 2020.
But then her dad took office in January of 2021.
When he was elected, I was told to keep my mouth shut.
I did because at the end of the day, I really hoped he had changed.
When Roe v Wade decision came to light, I voiced my concerns, and he silenced them.
There's so much more money and power driven things he's done.
I would likely make more TikToks on them.
So she's looking to expose him completely.
Now, as a matter when we talk, I just mentioned how she said I had to
distance myself from him when I was younger.
I didn't speak to him.
And then I came back around.
I was hoping for some changes.
It's consistent in this cycle of not sure if the person who's probably supposed to
be the biggest protector of yours,
person who understands who you are and accepts you the most.
Just imagine the many folks,
young folks who've had to deal with being detached from their parents and
what seems like maybe their parents kicked them out of the house of disowning them.
But sometimes the person has to take care of themselves as well.
And it leads to this state here.
LGBTQ youth who felt high social support from their family,
reported attempting suicide at less than half the rate of those who felt low or
moderate social support.
So we talked about those numbers and then many times we'll just ignore them and
say, I believe in every life is precious.
Except for the ones that are ended and are depressed and sometimes even end up on
the streets and dead just because their parents didn't accept them and
just dismiss them as this guy did.
>> Okay, so guys, we live in two different worlds, all right?
Because I guarantee you that guy is having a conversation with his friends and
other parts of the family going,
man, can you believe how the liberals corrupted my daughter.
Now, she doesn't even listen to us anymore.
And she doesn't even hate gay people.
And now she says she's bisexual.
God-damn it. They corrupted her, man.
Otherwise, she would have been just like us, and
she would have known that gay people are bad, and
they shouldn't have the same rights as us, and you certainly shouldn't be gay.
And then they got her thinking that she should have rights and
that she should control her own body, goddamn Lib's man.
They corrupted her.
That's why we gotta change the education system.
They're genuinely having that conversation, and they really mean it.
And so whereas we look at and go, can you believe how terrible
the dad is that he prioritizes hating other people or
owning the Libs over his own daughter.
I don't know how we're ever gonna get back together.
We live in two different realities, and
they're not that close to one another at all.
So @Caroline, I don't know if you got any thoughts on this.
We gotta poll.
We're gonna ask people which, basically,
would you cut off a family member who voted against the right to an abortion?
Just focusing on that one issue?
Yes or no.
Caroline, what's your thoughts?
>> Yeah, my dad is a Conservative Republican.
Just wanna say thank God, I did not have a TikTok or
social media was not really around.
But I think, yeah, I think that this dynamic is,
it really is a tale as old as time when you think about it.
People for centuries have been talking about the youth rebelling against
their parents.
So I think in that sense it's something that you can focus on.
What I like to focus on is, when you're young, and you're really fiery and
passionate about a lot of different political issues.
It's really easy for the first thing when you're not getting your way is to think
about cutting people off, cutting people out of your life.
And of course, if there's like abuse and trauma and
things like that's a very real solution.
Luckily for me, that was not the case.
But as this Tiktoker mentions like,
it's really difficult when you are young and not economically independent.
And I think for young people, what I would say is that your
feelings are totally valid about these tensions.
But this is actually where organizing principles really are founded
on these dynamics, and it's a really great place.
Again, if you are in the mental health space to do something like this,
this is where you sharpen your arguments at home.
I mean, I'm literally here today right now because through my childhood and
adolescence was like really figuring out how to talk to people that I
loved that were just so diametrically opposed to my opinions and beliefs.
And so I think that there is a good space to be able to practice these things,
practice these conversations,
practice these dynamics because they're not going to go away.
And a young woman like this can very well grow up to be like such an incredible
leader that we need in states like Iowa especially,
who can have these conversations with people that they care about.
And convince them with the facts and the logic and
the changing nature of our society.
So that's what I have to say.
And I think this just, it speaks really well to this younger generation of
how they are handling really difficult political conversations.
So I just encourage leaning into those conversations when you can,
and you'll be amazed at how for your courage will take you.
>> This could seem like it's a new age thing, all right?
And maybe the reasons behind it when a kid comes forward like this and
can expose their parents when it comes to this.
There's this exposure to the world that kids have, and I call our kid, but younger
folks have that maybe older generations didn't especially comes to parents.
I've always said things like, the kids are gonna be okay because they
actually have an approach and actually encouraged that many others didn't.
Because there was such isolated,
narrow-minded approach if your parents were like that where you don't get to see
other folks understand that this isn't normal.
So what people like this and specifically conservatives that wanna make sure kids
bottle up and have the same hateful beliefs that they do.
They have to try and keep them from knowledge, and
it's impossible now the lids off.
There's access to so
much information that at any point you have no idea your kids walking to school,
and they're checking out general news and knowing what's going on.
We talked about kids have been watching our show since they were 14 years old.
I was like, man, I would have never [LAUGH] been
watching the show at 14 years old when I was 14.
>> Mm-hm.
>> But it's just, it's a different type of mindset and energy and
these folks that are trying to keep their kids corralled in this stupidity and
bigotry, it's not gonna work anymore.
And this is the battles that they're gonna keep having, she said,
I'm gonna keep on doing this, by the way.
>> Yeah, look, I don't know how to vote on the poll to be honest,
because on the one hand, what I would do is I would talk my parents into oblivion.
[LAUGH] Okay, and by the way, tyt.com/polls, and
we'll have the link down below if you're watching on YouTube or Facebook later.
And so I would ask them and ask them and say, okay, so
why do you think gay people should have less rights?
So why do you think?
And I would throw everything I got at them.
But if it got to a point where they're like, no, I just think gay people
are immoral, and they shouldn't have the same rights as we do.
I don't know, man.
Yeah. At some point, you, you,
you either gotta wall that off in some way or say, yeah, I can't do this anymore.
And it's, I mean we both think that our
position that the opposite position is immoral,
they think gay people existing, let alone.
I mean they, I hate that.
Say when they're like, hey, look, look, I hate the center, love the sin or
the opposite, Sorry, that's the Vegas thing.
I gotta mixed up.
Okay, love the sinner hate the sin.
Well, it ain't a goddamn sin.
It isn't a sin.
You're wrong.
You're, you're, and we think your position is deeply immoral to say,
and if you want to use religious terms, God created you this way.
And so, but if you do act that way that God created you,
we're gonna hate on you and we're gonna give you less rights.
No, man, we think you're immoral for doing that, I,
I think you're a terrible person if you do that.
So my whole life republicans have been saying that democrats are immoral And
Democrats never say it back, but it's not just political tip for 10.
I actually think they're immoral.
I think you're a bad human being,
if you say someone else should have less rights and should be hated and
their their choices should be called a sin because of my ideological beliefs and
religious beliefs and and so I want you to discriminate against them.
I think it's a yeah, you're you're deeply immoral.
So do you, can you have contact with someone that immoral and
have a healthy relationship?
I don't know.
I guess it didn't very person immediately I'd be like, yes,
I can cut that person 100% real fast.
Yeah, but can you do when it's a family member or close friend?
Alright, well there's got an easy answer.
I Don't Know, Caroline one Last Time.
Is it easy for you or hard for you?
No, it's definitely not easy.
I think also the the question like for me this raises a question too of like,
well if you as a parent are not like adequately teaching your
child about those values that you hold so dear then you are not doing your job.
Like there's a lot of young people who want to engage in discussions with their
parents and family members about very difficult things, but there's this like it
sounds very much like in this story, this young woman's father like has no interest
in in walking through these different debates and morals and values with her.
And like in that case, that's not just, you know, in addition to the like
this father or whoever is, it is opposed to certain people having rights.
That also means that they don't care enough about you to like share
their perspective and really go deep and if that's the case then yeah,
I could definitely see cutting someone off.
Yeah, supervised thing.
I think that it also depends on if it's friends or family friends,
you could put in a certain bucket, like I think that guy's a knucklehead,
he thinks I'm a knucklehead, but we're gonna go play golf or something.
I don't know.
I don't know. You can make,
I can see that we're gonna go to a movie, I don't wanna watch a football game,
I can see that, right?
With parents, It's so personal.
So it's both harder to cut them off and harder to accept at the same time.
So that's why it's such a hard question