Well Thanksgiving without talking politics.
So first I want to say I think the word
cult is pretty strong.
I wouldn't use that word myself, though I do think
it's problematic that when we see something I think we
should all agree is bad, justifying it by saying the
other side is worse doesn't really help.
I think that we should be nonpartisan when it comes
to saying, hey, that person's corrupt, or hey, that person's
pushing Project 2025.
Just because you think there are some people like AOC
who believes in the Green New Deal or whatever kind
of things you're talking about, doesn't justify the wrong things
happening from either side of the aisle.
Now, when it comes to this up here, uh no
one's saying that men can get Bradman.
I have never said that in my campaign.
I'm not aware of any one of my fellow Democratic
colleagues who ran for office who have said that.
That is a narrative pushed by Fox News.
Now, I will say that when I was growing up,
I was taught that there was only two types of
chromosomes.
There was XX and XY.
That's what I was raised to believe.
Only for years later and more recently find out that
there's actually several more pumutations than just that.
And also to come to find out that 30% of
men lose their Y chromosome.
Yeah, are you a geneticist?
I am.
So most women have two X chromosomes.
Most men have an X and a Y.
But you can have one X, three X's, XXY, XY,
and other combinations too.
And all what we're talking about is related to, but
distinct from the idea of gender, which reflects, you know,
one's lived experiences, their identity, even social cultural factors.
I have a fun fact for you, John.
Uh among men of a certain age, about a third
of them, uh, we can actually detect that some of
their cells, some of their circulating white blood cells have
actually lost their Y chromosome.
I mean, given that this is the reality, if you
ask me now what is a woman, well, previously I
thought there was only XX and X, Y, and that
was it.
Now that I realize it's more complicated than that, if
you ask me what is a woman, of course, I'm
gonna say, well, because I was lied to growing up
about the whole XX and XY. thing, I guess I
would have to take a course that would teach me
certain studies about gender to make sure that I understand
things correctly
That would be this gender studies.
And that's not me pushing any woke agenda.
That's just me having an open mind and wanting to
understand.
Because you know the Olympics a long time ago, they
tried to do blood tests on the athletes to basically
determine well who has XX and XY in order to
make sure that you know only males and females went
into their their uh particular sports separately.
And they found out that they couldn't do that.
They couldn't do that.
The Olympics tried to do that and they realized that
you can't just look at chromosomal stuff in a bloodstream
and determine what kind of genitalia someone has based upon
that alone.
Apparently it's more complicated than that.
But that's what we're talking about when we talk about
gender studies but this up here no one's saying that
men can get pregnant.
I've never said that I don't know of any other
Democrat who's running for office who has said that I
suppose you can find some maybe someone out there who
uh who has said so and you can take that
out of context but that's not a real serious thing
that any one of us uh who's run for the
Democratic office believes in.