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Yeah.
Okay.
Well now there's an officer in here just trying to join the stream.
>> You're winning.
>> Okay.
I don't know if you guys heard that.
I hope you didn't, but basically I'm just gonna
act like they're not here because that's easier.
>> The footage that you just watched was from the twitch stream of a transgender
twitch streamer by the name of Wynn, Wynn is a 16 year old trans girl who
was unfortunately confronted by police as she was streaming Minecraft.
Now she unfortunately lives in an over zealous religious state like
Tennessee where they've passed all sorts of draconian anti transgender laws.
We'll get to those details in just a second, but the police entered her room to
confront her about allegedly being truant from school.
And the reason why she was truant is because the school told her that they no
longer wanted her to show up for in person learning because she is transgender and
because she wants to use the restroom that she identifies with.
And so since they don't want her showing up to school, they gave her the option of
online learning and she doesn't want online learning, she believes and
I agree with her that she has the right to go to school, just like her peers,
just like her other classmates.
Now the story gets even worse because the cops showed up to basically take her away
and put her in foster care,
although she has parents and doesn't need to be in foster care.
Wynn stated that she was pressured to do online school rather than attend
in person and that she has refused to go to the online school and
thus has been considered truant.
I consider it being denied an education though it legally isn't considered
as such.
So that's why the judge considered me truant when said,
other students also took an online school option, but
she was the only one she knew of that was pressured heavily to stay home, she said.
She also believes that the state is forcing her into the foster care system.
Honestly, it doesn't matter what she believes.
They absolutely are forcing her into the foster care system because of
new laws in Tennessee that essentially prevents parents from
making gender affirming healthcare available to their children,
meaning they are punishing parents who are actually loving and supportive parents.
That is what the state of Tennessee is currently doing.
We've talked about Texas doing the same thing, I wanna give Wynn more opportunity
to share her perspective before I open this up to Jinx.
So let's take a quick look at the final video.
>> I love streaming and it's honestly one of the only things in life that I really
enjoy and they're trying to put me into foster care where I can't even do that.
How's everything going in court.
It's over.
They're sending me to foster care.
But I'm not, I refuse to go to foster care,
I want to go to school, I want to get an education.
So I'm hoping I can just explain that to the DCS people and
then I'll be able to get an education instead of being forced out of my house,
instead of being without parents.
I was already adopted once.
I don't need to be adopted again.
I just need to be able to go to school.
Basically, I'm just worried I'd get abused.
So I'm just stressed out especially because I'm trans,
there's a chance that anyone who would adopt me would be insanely transphobic.
I just heard so many horror stories, but I don't know why, but
I was thinking they just say, hey, you can go to school instead of trying to say,
hey, we're gonna ruin your life.
I don't understand why the state of Tennessee would rather ruin a child's life
than just let her go to school.
>> And I think it's important to tell you all what happened after the first
video that we showed you.
She says the police forced me to turn around in my chair and then acted very
angry with me with an officer even saying that he didn't see any tears and
got mad at me for crying as I had tears running down my face.
They made me leave my room and had an officer search it.
After that they told me I shouldn't have put the chair against my door and
then took my door off its hinges.
They asked if I was suicidal, I said no.
And then they left.
They came back later that day she said to watch
her get into the caseworkers car to be taken to foster care.
So Cenk this is what the American Taliban is spending its time doing
torturing transgender youth, torturing and
tormenting parents who are supportive of transgender youth,
stripping rights away from women so they have no agency or autonomy.
This is what they do.
And in the meantime, they'll point fingers at the Taliban in the Middle East and
more allies about how terrible they are to women when in reality we have our own
fundamentalists large and in charge in this country stripping rights away from
people and terrorizing people who are just trying to live their lives peacefully.
>> Yeah, what you just saw there were the jack booted thugs of
the government coming to take your kids.
Now the right wing have said words like that for
decades here based on absolutely nothing.
I don't even know what they're referring to.
Cenk booted thugs, the government to do what sometimes they'll say,
take my guns away, literally never happened right in our entire lives.
And then they'll say, they're coming for your kids to do what?
Maybe teach them that the slaveholders were racist.
Ooh and and then they're threatening to teach them science and math and
get them educated.
But here it is actual thugs of the big government saying I'm gonna take your kids
away because they're trans and and the school's discriminating against them and
you guys won't bow your heads and agree to the discrimination.
So that's it.
We're taking them where we're gonna bring them to foster care.
By the way you saw her, they want her to go to a boys bathroom in high school.
How do you think that's gonna turn out and then they're gonna put her in foster care.
How do you think that's gonna turn out?
You think that they're gonna find a comforting environment in Tennessee?
It's not impossible.
There's good people, wonderful people in Tennessee.
There's also terrible people in Tennessee.
Now that's generically true of everywhere.
First of all. Second of all, it's a right wing state.
So the right wing lax morals in this country, they hate freedom.
They love big government, controlling women's lives,
destroying families like this.
Yeah.
But on top of that, I know for
a fact how horrible Tennessee can be because of the life richly.
I mean, look, there's tons of these cases, but
we covered it was heartbreaking 12 year old kid go to school and he was gay.
Not that he ever talked about it, but
people assumed it because of what he wore, etc.
And they bullied him mercilessly, you're going to hell, God hates you.
You're terrible for who you are.
You're immoral, until he committed suicide.
Sweet little 12 year old boy.
That's what they do in Tennessee.
That's what the right wing does in this country.
God created you a certain way.
What the hell does God know, I'm gonna bully you anyway for being who you are.
By the way I'm doing this for freedom.
No you're not.
You're the oppressors, you're the tyrants.
You love big government.
As long as big government works to oppress people you don't like or
that don't look like you.
The right wing in this country is disgusting and hates freedom.
>> So update on when and it's a somewhat positive update but
not positive enough to give me any calm.
So she says that she's doing a little better.
The plan now is to try getting a new court date for
the foster care people to tell a judge that I don't need to be in foster
care in hopes that I can be officially released from DCS today, Wynn said.
And the school has agreed to let her attend summer school to catch up in
time for the second semester of 11th grade next year.
So she's behind through no fault of her own.
She's behind because the school had initially decided to treat her like
a second class citizen and essentially ban her from in person learning,
forcing her to do online learning which by the way has its own challenges.
Not everyone is able to learn through online learning and
they didn't really give her an option.
But again,
the thing that really gets to me Cenk is ripping families apart like this.
Let's just call it what it is.
The right wing loves tearing families apart.
They love doing it at the border when desperate asylum seekers are just trying
to get their kids to safety, trying to get their kids away from violence and death,
they'll take the kids away.
In some cases, they even place those children with American families and
never even kept track of where their parents ended up.
Remember that.
>> Yeah.
>> The right wing loves it.
They love ripping families apart.
That is what right wing family values in America really means.
That is what it really means.
Don't make a mistake about it.
>> Yeah.
I mean, look, in the old days they say, well Cenk,
you can't say who's more immoral?
You guys are just having policy differences.
Really no, now the policy differences are we hate,
you will rip you away from your parents or will control your bodies and
you're not allowed to control your own body.
We're gonna take away your freedom.
And they break up families on the regular and by the way, family values.
Our dear leader, our president, the guy, we look up to had sex with mistresses and
strippers and porn stars while his wife was pregnant.
And it's awesome that he did that, he is so
great for having sex with porn stars and cheating on his wife.
And he likes his daughter and says, he date her if he could,
he was with Jeffrey Epstein and said, yeah, Jeffrey Epstein likes them young.
He knew that Epstein, his friend was a child molester, Roy Moore,
child molester, Dennis Hastert child molester.
These are all facts and they're like, we love it.
Well, wait a minute, if that's your definition of family values and it is,
then you actually have no morality at all.
You have nothing to hang your hat on.
So yeah, right wing there, the immoral people in this country and
they have a good way of identifying themselves.
If somebody tells you a republican, be really careful there,
probably deeply immoral.
>> Probably scheming ways to rip your family apart.
Fun little hobby for them.