 ready for a trip down Orwellia nightmare lane except it's not a nightmare and it's all very real thank you mr chairman thanks to all of the witnesses for being here before i want to visit with you miss meski but before i do i just want to clear one thing up professor bridges you said several times you've used a phrase i want to make sure i understand what you mean by it you've referred to people with a capacity for pregnancy would that be women three two one many women cis women have the capacity for pregnancy many cis women do not have the capacity for pregnancy um there are also trans men who are capable of pregnancy as well as non-binary people who are capable of pregnancy no no you need a uterus ovaries and a womb in order to get pregnant men don't have that so this isn't really a women's rights issue it's uh we can recognize that this impacts women while also recognizing that it impacts other groups those things are not mutually exclusive senator holly oh my god the oozing festering completely undeserved arrogance and condescension from a person who's about to deny all established biological scientific fact oh so your view is is that the core of this this right then is about what so um i want to recognize that your line of questioning um is transphobic and it opens up trans people to violence by not wow you're saying that i'm opening up people to violence by asking whether or not women or the folks who can have pregnancies so i'm one i want to note that one out of five transgender persons have attempted suicide so i think it's important because of my line of questioning because we can't talk about it because denying that trans people exist and pretending not to know that they exist i'm denying that trans people exist by asking you if you're talking about women are you having pregnancies do you believe that uh men can get pregnant excuse me what no i don't think so you're denying the trans people and that leads to violence you either agree with her objectively false premise or she's gonna make you feel pain god stop it i will turn this on and leave you in agony all night there are four lights there are five lights how many do you see now do you believe that uh men can get pregnant no i don't think so you're denying the trans people exist and that leads to violence in this case she's trying to ostracize josh holly from society by assigning labels to him that would put him in what the communists call the black class is this how you run your classroom or students allowed to question you or are they also treated like this where they're told that they're opening up people to violence we have a good time in my class you should join i bet you might learn a lot wow i would learn a lot i've learned a lot i know this exchange extraordinary all right folks i've damaged my brain just enough to call it a day if you enjoyed please smack that like button subscribe share and leave a comment to let us all know what you think thanks a lot see you on the next