 The next topic is just mind-boggling and insane and ridiculous and I don't know exactly what to do about it. But I came across this from Paul McKeeva, who's an objectivist in Canada, and on his Facebook page on this article, and the article says, the title of the article, and first when I read it first, I thought, no, this is like fake news, this is some like onion piece, this is some ridiculous thing in it, and it is true that the title is a bit more crazy than the actual content, but it's still insane, the actual content is still insane. But I thought this was so nuts that it couldn't be true, so I did a bit of a Google search and it's like this appeared in every newspaper in Canada and it appeared in all the British newspapers. So I figured, and then if you go and you can find actual documents from the school district, so this is actually true. I mean this is the title, now the title is a little there to provoke, but that's what titles are there for, and this is what the title says, eight-year-old pupils to be told boys can have periods too under new sex education lessons guideline. Yeah, you heard that right. The new education guidelines, the new sex education guidelines in order not to discriminate between boys and girls are telling in the class, they are being told that boys can have periods too. Now for a while there I thought, no okay, this is completely nuts. What are they talking about? Boys can have periods, I mean boys can't have periods, I mean that's just, and it took me a while because it's so convoluted and so weird what they're actually saying. It took me a while to figure out what they actually mean because they talk about transgenders and all right, but what does that have to do with boys? Boys can't have periods. Boys, you know, if you have a penis you don't have a period. That's about it. You need certain infrastructure, biological infrastructure to have a period. And I think what they mean, and ultimately what I got from this is, and they won't say it exactly because they can't be too explicit, they can't actually say what they mean. Being vague and being misleading is part of how they get away with this crap. What they mean is that a girl who identifies herself as a boy who might be in the boy's locker room could have a period. Now that is true, biologically. I originally thought they were just, you know, even denying biology, but as I read I realized that, no, what they're doing is they're not denying that aspect of biology. They might be denying other aspects of biology. They're not denying that. They're just recognizing the fact that if, big if, if you accept that a pre-puberty, pupubescent child who is a girl can identify as a boy and a pupubescent boy who can identify as a girl and that that is legitimate, that that is legit and that they should be treated that way, then you, it recognizes the fact that you've got a real problem because girls who identify as boys are going to have periods and the boys around them are not going to know what to do because, hey, at age 12 I don't think I knew exactly. I didn't know what a period was. I had no idea. So this girl who's identified as a boy is not surrounded by girls who might be able to help them understand what it is, then are surrounded by boys who have no clue and who are probably shocked by the whole thing and probably therefore are going to behave in, in not so nice ways towards this girl who's identified as a boy who's not bleeding and having menstruation. So, so now what they're doing is they're teaching this to eight-year-olds that boys can have periods too. I mean the insanity of it, no, boys by definition do not menstruate. One of the things that makes a woman, a woman biologically is that she menstruates, that she has a period. One of the things that trans, that men who identify as women will never experience and that's why they can never be fully female is having a period. Now I've never had one so I don't know the full experience but, you know, living around a woman I can tell you it's an experience. It's time consuming, energy consuming, hormone consuming, hormone influencing. It's an experience, one way or the other, negative positive, it's an experience that only women can have, only biological women can have and it doesn't matter what you identify yourself with. Now you can have all that mechanism taken out and have something rebuilt down there that and then you can pretend to be a man. I think that's a lot easier than the other way around but as long as you have that biology that's what you are and I'm not denying here, I'm not denying here that certain people who are born women even in adulthood feel like they should be a man. Feelings in our primary, one, two, even if there's some biological basis to that, hormones, something else, something going on in the brain, it doesn't make them a man. It makes them feel like they want to be a man. It makes them feel like a man but it doesn't make them a man. And the same with the other way around. And I feel sorry for them. I think it's horrible, horrible, horrible, whether it's biological, psychological, whatever the cause is. To be of one gender feel like you should be of another gender. I can't imagine because sex is so important and clearly knowing who you are and clearly knowing who you're attracted to is so important, so important that it's sad if you can't do that. If you don't know how to identify yourself, if you don't feel a complete man or a complete woman, if you're torn or if you've got a body of one and you think you should be something else, I mean all of those are real psychological issues and real problems and I feel sorry for those people. It's really, really problematic and they shouldn't be made fun of and they should be ridiculed and suddenly they have a right to live their life with dignity and they have a right, all the rights that any other individual has but they don't have more rights than that and it's not, you can't just ignore biological reality and there is a sudden biological reality. Now I do know a man who turned himself into a woman, a famous economist, I actually mentioned her on the show a while ago and I've spent some time with her now. She transitioned to being a female and she's quite old and she's delightful and funny and amazing and we disagree very fundamentally on lots of issues philosophically we're not aligned although we're aligned up to a point, more aligned than a lot of intellectuals are and she's more open to our ideas than many intellectuals are but she's religious and she's lots of other things and she's wrong about a lot of things but she's a delight to be with and I consider her a she because she's changed the biology in enough ways and that's what she wants to be called and that's what she dresses as and that's what she behaves as that she's a she, right, who was a he and she's funny about it, she talks about it, she's got such a fume about it so and I think it's cost her a lot to make that transition it's not a simple thing to have done but okay as an adult you have a lot of ways in which you can deal with these things but let me say this again as long as your biology is what it is that's what you are children should not have a choice children should not have a choice children should not be making these kind of decisions it is absurd and ridiculous to expect children eight years old to understand sexuality anything about sexuality anything about gender other than their boys and their girls and a boy who feels like a girl and a girl who feels like a boy and eight at eighth grade or eight years old or eight year olds is absurd it's ridiculous it's bizarre maybe as teenagers late teens it's nuts and to and to cultivate this and to embrace this and to make it part of the curriculum for God's sake is absolutely absurd yes there are plenty of little girls who are tomboy's and who want to be boys lots of them lots of them particularly given the way girls are treated and the way boys are often treated a lot of girls would like to be boys because they can be like to be treated like boys because boys are generally treated better in some way at least and it's a travesty travesty to appease that and it's not surprised at what you get is a generation of emotions spewing young adults who are told that anything they feel at any point in their life is okay children are not developed enough cognitively biologically sexually to have an opinion about these things they can tell mommy I feel this way fine and if it sustains itself maybe you should you know as a parent you should consider it and think about it and I don't know I don't know enough about the condition but to take it seriously enough to give them hormones or to let them let a girl be in a boys locker room or boy beings are girls locker room because they identify the age of eight with some of the sex is absurd and ridiculous unfair to the child never mind all the other children and it enshrines subjectivism so I don't think we have a good biological scientific grasp on what's going on with transgenderism but I certainly don't think that we should embrace this idea that we should teach eight-year-olds and we should teach children that there are no differences between genders and you know menstruation is inclusive the teacher the advisor says menstruation must be inclusive of all genders no only those with a biology of a woman of a girl can mince men straight boys cannot menstruate they cannot it's one of the things that makes a goal a goal the new advice following a council report which says trans boys and men and non-binary people how can you be non-binary as a child may have periods no they can't men can't have periods menstruations must be included of all genders bins listen to this bins used for menstruation products will be provided an all toilets for children according to the report unbelievable just unbelievable what the subjectivism that we that we have come to in the world in which we live in the world in which we live this is what the council says in a statement by encouraging effective education on menstruation and puberty we hope to reduce stigma and ensure no child or young person feels shame in asking for period products inside or outside of school if they need them that's all fine although again I don't think eight-year olds need to learn have sex education classes I'm not sure what they're thinking you know maybe girls are starting to menstruate at age I don't know but this is primarily something the parents should be dealing with not the schools not every parent once they kids taught told that the actual details of menstruation of sex and everything else and of course as as Doron mentions generally trans children are very very very rare very rare as one of the critics says critics of this policy says learning about periods is already a difficult subject for children of that age of any age really so to throw in the idea girls who believe that they are boys also have periods will leave them completely confused absolutely however the article says leading doctors have previously recommended to primary school children are taught about LGBT issues no no no I mean that's just absurd that young children should be taught about these issues now you know the only reason I can think of is in the culture in which we live in these issues rise to the surface and kids are exposed to them at a very young age and and but it'd be good then if they just got objective information and objective knowledge about it instead of the kind of subjectivism that that is perpetrated by I think this recommendation and other recommendations like it all right