Student: I had my church and my family,
who was like...
They reaffirmed me that I was a girl,
which I am very thankful for, because at that point,
I definitely wanted to go on hormones as soon as I could.
One thing that I've heard of
that I've not heard any conservative
or liberal people saying, is that while there's an increase
in transgender women to men that's going on,
there's also an increase
in women being diagnosed with autism
in their teens and twenties.
I don't know if you've heard anything about that,
or about any studies that might relate
having gender dysphoria with autism.
And maybe if it's a symptom of that, nobody's talking about.
Knowles: I have. I was reading one of these today, actually,
that a young girl, I forget her name,
was uncomfortable in her body, as all teenagers are.
It happened to you as well.
Wow.
Before I tell you
about some article I read on the internet, what happened?
Student: I was told to keep it brief,
but I guess I'll tell my story.
Knowles: No,
keep it long, keep it lengthy. I want to hear the story.
[audience laughter]
Student: As a kid, I didn't...
I liked both girl and boy things as a kid,
which that's what a lot of people go through,
and then as soon as I hit puberty,
I could not deal with the changes in my body.
And I didn't really have a word for it yet
as transgenderism, but I would bind my chest in secret,
I would make my clothes to where it would hide my hips,
and I had my church and my family, who was like...
They reaffirmed me that I was a girl,
which I'm very thankful for, because at that point,
I definitely wanted to go on hormones as soon as I could.
And if I was still with the influence of the Left
and the LGBT, I would have gone on hormones,
and I would've detransitioned
because it was a symptom of my autism
that I got diagnosed with at 20,
and it wasn't actual gender dysphoria.
Knowles: I've heard a number of stories.
I told you, I was reading one of these today.
Abigail Shrier has written a book about it
called "Irreversible Damage" about the regret,
about these same sorts of issues that you're talking about,
which is good.
And the media completely shut it out.
You are not allowed to tell that story.
The young woman I spoke to just the other day,
Helena Kerschner, she is not allowed to tell her story
about coming to realize, no, I'm not actually a man,
and realize this isn't working.
You were so fortunate.
You were so fortunate...
[audience applause]
that your family and your community were sane.
You are so fortunate that your family
and community were sane, and did not indulge this delusion.
And the scariest part,
the scariest part is that a lot of the families
who will indulge this kind of transgender mania
that could be caused by any other number of conditions,
notably autism, though, you're right.
That is cropping up quite a lot.
A lot of these families
just want to do what's best for their kid.
And they're being told by these sickos on television
and in the universities and in the political apparatus
that the only way to treat your kid
is to lop off their genitals
and inject them with cross-sex hormones.
Absolute irreversible damage that would've caused, frankly,
as you're describing in your case,
greater regret and stress and anxiety
than you were experiencing even in the moment.
That's incredibly... I'm so glad
that you were able to come through that
and have a real medical diagnosis in the end
that did not result in you mutilating yourself.