Speaker 1: I think and and I hope that this will be interesting to you. I've spoken before on
the show about what I call these unsubscribed trolls. These are people who loudly tell me,
sometimes for years I was just about to become a paid member. I was just about to do it. But
then you said this, and now I'm never giving you a penny or I have been a subscriber for years, but
now I'm canceling because you said the wrong thing or whatever. I have one of these examples for you,
and it's kind of evolved over several months. Over the weekend, an email came in from someone named
Yulia who said, I'm canceling and I'm canceling David because you were not transphobic enough. Now
those are my words, not their words, and I looked up their email history. This is why we keep it.
And hilariously, they've been emailing me for six months, and it's always about how I'm not
transphobic enough. I need to be more transphobic. And it started with I was about to give you money,
but I'm not. And now it's I'm canceling because you're not transphobic. This is fascinating. So
let's start with the first email. This one's from early October, where Yulia said, Hey David, I've
been watching your YouTube channel for some time. I was thinking about joining to contribute money,
but there is one thing that has kept me from it. You see the most attractive thing about
your channel. For me, I'm a molecular biologist as you frame your narrative around science,
including the vaccine debates. But there was one thing that turned me off. There was one show
in which you talked about trans people saying something that everyone, everybody on the
left tends to say transwomen are women. Now is virtually any biologists will tell you sex is real
and cannot be changed by current scientific methods. In my opinion, if you're all about
science, saying that transwomen are women is grossly inaccurate. It's true to say
transwomen are transwomen, but not women. You're saying that they are women because
they identify as women or whatever is something that sounded hypocritical to me as a biologist.
I would join and support your channel, I guess, if you stayed more accurate to science because
as a scientist, I've been looking for a leftist who would be true to science guys. Is is Julia,
a scientist? I think it was only mentioned five times in this email. So first of all,
I have never denied that biological sex exists. I have never claimed that current scientific methods
chromosomally change a man to a woman or a woman to a man. But I have said
that for the purposes of society and how I will deal with people. It makes no difference to me
whether a woman is biologically female or not, if that is how they are
living their life and want to be seen. OK, so anyway, you get the point that was in October,
November, Yulia writes in again and says, How are you left different from Trumpists? David,
I appreciate your show. But this recent question about transgender ism has caught my attention.
Now, remember, they were about to subscribe in October and didn't. They're still watching, though
I think you would be doing a disservice to yourself into the community if you continue
to blindly follow the left propaganda about transgender ism. I know, I know inclusivity. So
should we, for the sake of inclusivity, teach creation science in schools? Your show's most
prominent feature is you position yourself as true to the facts. It is what I and most of
your audience, I suppose like about you. This is not the first time Yulia speaks for my audience,
and Yulia goes on to say, So tell me when a male person says, I feel I am a woman. Therefore,
it is true and you believe him and insist on everyone calling this male person a female.
How is this different from people saying Trump won when he didn't? How is this not a delusion? The
same way, Trumpists think Trump won again? This is not tailored to the things I have said on the
show. But they are continuing to slam me. And then the final straw guy and listen. Six seven months
of being displeased with what I say and continuing to watch, Yulia has had enough. Why unsubscribe,
David? I might not be significant for you. I'm just a biological scientist, but I have to say
I am unsubscribing and perhaps many other people will follow again speaking for everybody else.
The reason is I was under the impression you were a nonpartisan, objective reality check science
channel. You betrayed me. When you talk about so-called trans people, you evoke no statistics,
you evoke no scientific argument. All you said was just in agreement with YouTube policy. I wish
said it out loud, I am saying this because this is in agreement with YouTube policy,
but you didn't say that. Guys, I don't know what she's talking about. I have no idea.
Anyway, Julia says I cannot recommend you or your channel to anyone I know because you lack
integrity. I am very sorry. You do not deserve a place in my media stream and I am
a scientist. You are not about science. I'm trying to. I almost forgot between emails two and three
that Yulia is a scientist. But now I remember anyway, I don't even know that I've said most
of the stuff she's referring to. The issue of trans people doesn't come up a ton on this show.
But you know what? Good riddance, Yulia. Good riddance. I was never going to be the
trans phobe that you wanted me to be, so I'm sorry to see you go, but not really.
And hopefully this means no more emails. That's another really funny thing. Sometimes people
are like, I haven't been subscribed for three years, but I'm going to email you every week
with some critique of what you said. I'm fine for you to unsubscribe, but please stop the
email. So that's a little peek behind the curtain at the stuff we're dealing with on a daily basis.