Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 510 | It’s Rachel’s Tale, We’re All Just Handmaids In It

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, this is Steve Day. If you're listening to Allie, you already understand that the biggest issues facing our country aren't just political. They're moral, spiritual, and rooted in what we believe is true about God, humanity, and reality itself. On the Steve Day show, we take the news of the day and tested against first principles, faith, truth, and objective reality. We don't just chase narratives and we don't offer false comfort. We ask the hard questions and follow the answers wherever they leave, even when it's unpopular. This is a show for people who want honesty over hype and clarity over chaos. If you're looking for commentary grounded in conviction and unwilling to lie to you about where we are or where we're headed.

Starting point is 00:00:33 You can watch this D-Day show right here on Blaze TV or listen wherever you get podcasts. I hope you'll join us. Hey guys, welcome to relatable. Happy Thursday. Okay, we've got a very womanly episode today. We are talking about stories that have to do with women. Women and I would say motherhood are under fierce attack as they have been literally since the beginning of time.

Starting point is 00:01:08 our mother, the mother of all of us, Eve, was the first to be targeted by Satan to be tempted to be asked the question, did God really say the first one to be tempted to question both God's authority and her own identity. And still, to this day, we see women in what seems and motherhood and what these things mean, we see them being redefined, perverted, diminished by mainstream culture. There are a few stories this week that happened that I think represent all of this. One was the Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Services, who goes by Rachel Levine. This is a man who identifies as a woman. That's the most accurate language that I can use. I'm not trying to be purposely inflammatory. I'm not trying

Starting point is 00:01:55 to be rude. This is factually what this person is, a man who now has grown out his hair and now identifies as a woman. He is being called by the New York Times and other outlets, the first female four-star admiral. I always want to say admirable. Admiral in the United States Health Service. And then there was this tweet by Margaret Atwood. She is the feminist author of The Handmaid's Tale. She's being called a turf online, trans-exclusionary radical feminist for questioning why we can't use the word woman anymore. And then if we have time, we'll get to Pete Buttigieg and his male partner who adopted two kids, twins. He went on paternity leave. He is transportation secretary, and there's a lot of

Starting point is 00:02:43 transportation things that are going on right now that could use his help. And that is not criticizing paternity leave. There is a lot of complexity to the criticisms that I think he's facing him. We'll talk about that if we have time. A commentator, S.E. Cup says that the reason that Pete Buttigieg is getting criticism is because pro-life conservatives are hypocrites and really he should be a hero to us. Well, that completely gets wrong, the arguments that conservatives are making. And we will also do a follow-up on the Dave Chappelle special saga. People are protesting Netflix. We'll play a little clip of that. And then again, if we have time, I want to end the episode with this awesome short clip of Condoleezza Wright on The View talking about the tenets of critical race theory and what we

Starting point is 00:03:34 should be teaching kids, both white, black, and brown. And just I think that it's a great refutation of the principles that we have been seen of CRT. And we will definitely announce finally a giveaway winner from the 500th episode. All right, let's first talk about Rachel Levine. So here is how the New York Times reported on Levine's new title. Quote, Dr. Rachel Levine was sworn in as the first female four-star admiral in the history of the U.S. Public Health Service commissioned Corps. So Rachel Levine, who lived as Richard Levine, most of his life, was married to a woman until 2013, has two children transitioned at some point in the last few years or publicly

Starting point is 00:04:23 transitioned. We don't really know what went on behind the scenes before that. So that means he lived more than 50 years as a man and is now calling his. himself a woman. And now he gets the honor of being a first, which he would not get that particular honor if he were considered publicly what he is, which is just a white male. We have had plenty of white male four-star admirals before this. But now we have a white male with long hair who wears lipstick. And apparently that is history-making stuff. And we are all supposed to clap like seals and not along with this as if it's completely normal and worth celebration.

Starting point is 00:05:06 And let's just note that he wasn't even particularly good at his job before he got appointed for this position. So this is according to a great article by Lifesite News, I really appreciate their willingness to use proper pronouns when it comes to talking about a male. So this article says this, quote, apart from Levine's personal gender confit, Fusion critics note that Levine ran Pennsylvania's draconian COVID-19 response, pushing nursing homes to readmit Wuhan coronavirus patients and ordering two-year-olds to wear masks in public. His nursing home stance was particularly controversial in light of the revelation that he moved his 95-year-old mother out of a nursing home at the same time. Of course, once again, rules for thee and not for me.

Starting point is 00:05:53 He is also a radical. Quote, he has been a long time outspoken proponent of gender-Africa. that's in quotes and quote sex reassignment treatment for minors. In a 2017 lecture, he endorsed puberty blockers to gender confused children throughout puberty followed by quote sex change surgery at 18. While transgender surgery usually is performed only on adults, Levine said, quote, there are exceptions. Last month, Senator Rand Paul slammed Levine for his refusal to say, absolutely, minors shouldn't be making decisions to amputate their breasts or to amputate their genitalia. So Levine wouldn't say whether or not he endorses that kind of procedure even without parental

Starting point is 00:06:40 consent. Mind you that Richard Levine for the majority of his career served as a pediatrician. So I said this on Twitter, and it's absolutely true. No one cares what a privileged white man says or does until he says he's a woman. Now, just because of that declaration, he is a part of the oppressed class. I think I've said this before, but it reminds me of Michael Scott when he, you know, comes out into the open and the office, he says, I declare bankruptcy. And Oscar's like, you can't just say that you are bankrupt. And he's like, well, I didn't just say it.

Starting point is 00:07:20 I declared it. It's the same kind of power here. You can't just declare that you're a woman. but apparently you can. You're a part of the oppressed class. You get all of these accolades. You get the New York Times saying that you are the first female four-star admiral.

Starting point is 00:07:33 It's amazing. So for 50 years, you're a part of the allegedly oppressive cis heteropatriarchy, and now you're a shiro. And now you've beat out all the other women who have worked hard to get where you are. And now when an actual woman gets to this level, it'll be old news. It won't matter.

Starting point is 00:07:50 She won't get the same accolates. A woman's already done it. someone actually told me on Instagram I got a message because I posted I did a post on Instagram just saying you should never trust an entity who says a man can become a woman and then I posted the New York Times tweet and then I posted a picture of Levine and it was the picture of Levine I think that the New York Times posted or it's a but it's a publicly available official picture I didn't pick some bad picture I mean he's posed for this picture with makeup on and all that stuff. And someone messaged me and said it was mean. It was mean of me to post that picture,

Starting point is 00:08:27 that that was unchrist, like to post that picture. I'm just confused by that. Like, I use his official professional recent photo. If you think that's mean, then what are you saying? What are you saying if you think that's rude? I don't know. If you're uncomfortable with this picture, maybe, like, maybe you should think about that a little bit. Like, ask yourself why a picture of someone who is very clearly a man with long hair and lipstick calling himself a woman makes you uncomfortable. Is it perhaps because you know that's not a woman and that he doesn't look like a woman and we just are going to obscure that fact and we're going to pretend that someone who presents like this is just as much of a woman as anyone else? It's insane. It's a little bit insane,

Starting point is 00:09:09 right? Like let's try to remove ourselves from the double think and let's examine the discomfort, the natural discomfort that you might feel within that. I think it points is something very true. Hey, this is Steve Day. If you're listening to Allie, you already understand that the biggest issues facing our country aren't just political. They're moral, spiritual, and rooted in what we believe is true about God, humanity, and reality itself. On the Steve Day show, we take the news of the day and tested against first principles, faith, truth, and objective reality. We don't just chase narratives and we don't offer false comfort. We ask the hard questions and follow the answers wherever they leave, even when it's unpopular.

Starting point is 00:09:43 This is a show for people who want honesty over hype and clarity over chaos. If you're looking for commentary grounded in conviction and unwilling to lie to you about where we are or where we're headed, you can watch this D-Day show right here on Blaze TV or listen wherever you get podcasts. I hope you'll join us. So LGBTQ activists like to say that people like me, when I'm talking about the definition of what a woman is, that we are reducing women to their genitalia and their ability to have kids. And that's just an awful thing to do, apparently. by saying that only women have a uterus. And to be a woman, you have to have a certain biological makeup. They say, oh, well, a woman is more than that.

Starting point is 00:10:25 That's so reductionistic. That's so objectifying. That's so weird to reduce a woman to just her body and her anatomy. No, no, no, no, no. They are the ones reducing. I mean, these are the same people that are defining people by their body parts. Like Teen Vogue actually had a picture pointing out different parts of the female anatomy. And they said, people without a prostate.

Starting point is 00:10:54 Okay. So who is really reducing people to their anatomy? Is it me who says, oh, you know, only women have a uterus. Only women can give birth. Only women have female chromosomes. Or it's with people who are saying gestators or people with a vagina. I mean, come on, guys, come on. They are the ones reducing women because they are actually saying, in addition to using crazy newspeak language, they are saying that a woman is not biology.

Starting point is 00:11:24 It's actually just long hair and makeup, which is way more superficial than saying that a woman is defined by her biology. They're saying that, oh, yeah, you know, it's just these changes in your appearance. It's pronouns in your bio. It's a declaration. It's a decision. it's a skirt and heels. That's way more superficial than saying only a woman has a uterus. A woman is way more than just pronouns in your bio. It's way more than just a declaration and a decision to wear makeup one day. Being a woman means being an adult human female. That is the

Starting point is 00:11:57 definition of what it means to be a woman, which means that you have female chromosomes and everything that comes from that. And before, someone says something about intersex, Those are intersex disorders are very rare disorders. They exist. The people who have them are, of course, made in the image of God, wonderful, beautiful, but they don't negate the existence of male and female in the same way, as I've said many times, that people born with one leg don't negate the fact that human beings are bipeds. So, yes, being a man and being a woman, these things are defined by your body.

Starting point is 00:12:32 And in that body and with the hormones and the brain that comes with being male or female, experiences also differ. That is part of what makes male and female. That doesn't mean that all men and all women have the same experiences, but many do, and those experiences matter. And they do make up part of what it means to be male and female in addition to the primary designator, which is our bodies, the makeup of which was determined at the moment of conception in our DNA. One of those experiences yesterday, I shared this on Instagram. I was driving. I stopped at a stoplight. I was talking to my dad on the phone. I looked over to my right. And there was this old guy in his pickup truck next to me, just staring at me. And, you know, every woman has had that

Starting point is 00:13:20 moment of discomfort where you're like, don't make eye contact, don't make eye contact. But I accidentally did because I looked over and I'm always kind of looking to see who is next to me in the car for this very reason. Because it's, you know, you can feel uncomfortable in these type of situations. unfortunately these are just things that women typically think about even though i was in a safe area but i made eye contact and when i saw him uh he started making kissing faces at me it was disgusting it was it was disgusting and i was so thankful when the light turned green and he turned right and i kept going straight because it made me nervous like i said i was fine i was fine was you know in a crowded safe area but it's off-putting it makes you feel unsafe every woman that i know has experienced something

Starting point is 00:14:04 like that at one time or another, and we don't even really think about it. Rachel Levine has never experienced this. I said this on Instagram, and people thought I was talking about his looks, and I wasn't. I actually wasn't talking about because he looks a certain way. I was just talking about the fact that he lived 50 years as a man, and so he's never experienced something like that. I mean, I can't tell you how many times I and every other woman have experienced things like that throughout our lives.

Starting point is 00:14:31 There's a particular vulnerability. that comes with being a woman, being the smaller, weaker sex that does make parts of life more challenging from childhood through adulthood. I'm certainly not throwing some pity party here. That's just the way it is. There's a reason why women are predominantly the victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse. It's because of the innate biological differences between men and women. These things do matter. And yes, there are differences, obviously, in the processes of puberty between boys and girls that are also part of the defining experiences that make men and women what we are. The experience of conception and childbirth, if these things are

Starting point is 00:15:12 experienced, do make men and women very different. Not every woman has gone through, for example, C-sections like I have, and I'm not saying that someone who has not, a woman who has not given birth or gotten pregnant or any of those things that they're less of a woman, obviously, that's another red-haired misrepresentative argument that, you know, the LGBT activists make that if I say that only women can give birth, they think that I'm saying that only people who give birth can be women. And that's not what I'm saying. But the experience surrounding childbirth and the pain that comes with all of that, the experiences that come with, no matter what kind of birth that you had for me, it was C-sections and it was a very uniquely

Starting point is 00:16:02 painful and female experience that my husband and all of his experiences as a man will never be able to know himself. That is part of, part of what constitutes as the differences between men and women. And in an age where people say that lived experience is supreme, is equal to objective truth, which obviously I deny, but a lot of the same people that reject female lived experiences, they're the people who are also saying lived experience is so important. Like, why is this so hard to understand that the lived experience of women is different than the lived experience of men and these things matter? I know.

Starting point is 00:16:47 People are going to say, well, trans women, as they are called, experience harassment and distress and went through difficult puberty themselves and they have their own experiences. They have their own distresses. Yes, sure. But these are not female experiences. These are experiences of males who are dressing as women. That's a different experience. I'm happy to hear about those experiences, but they're not experiences of women.

Starting point is 00:17:16 Imagine a white person. Underwent procedures to make themselves look like a black person when they're 30 years old. They changed their skin color. Maybe they even went so far as to try to change the texture of their hair, even the shape of their facial features, you know, kind of like Rachel Dolazol. Remember Rachel Dolazol? She, you know, said that she identified as a black person. Would you consider that person black? And the question is, why not? Why would you not consider that person black? They lived their whole life white, but then at age 30, they decided to undergo a transformation to make them look like a black person. And they insisted, everyone affirmed their new identity. Why wouldn't you affirm their new identity? Because you know that being black is more than the color of your skin. It's more than just appearance. It's part of your DNA. It's also the experiences that you've had living as a black person that a white person probably can't fully know. While race is a social construct, ethnicity is not a social construct. It's not something that you can just take on and off. I mean, it is, it's part of who you are.

Starting point is 00:18:23 it's part of your biology and your identity. It doesn't matter what you declare yourself to be. You can't declare yourself a new ethnicity. It just doesn't work like that. And no one would accept that. Like if all of a sudden at 30 years old, a white person declared themselves to be a black person and they said, you know, I've really been oppressed as a black person in my whole life, you would deny that, right? Like you would say, no, I'm sorry, that doesn't count. You have not had the same experiences as a black person and that actually matters. okay well it's the same thing with gender a man can become a woman no more easily than a white person can become a black person and it's honestly it's insane i know i keep on using that word but it's insane that this even has to be explained now perhaps levin truly struggles with gender dysphoria

Starting point is 00:19:10 and we should have compassion for that absolutely people with gender dysphoria which is a very rare mental disorder it is categorized as mental disorder by the dsm 5 i'm sure you sure that'll change one day, that doesn't change the fact, but they feel discomfort in their bodies because of their sex. And can you imagine feeling that way? I mean, I can't. I can only try to imagine how distressing and how depressing it would be to feel like you're trapped in your body and that your internal sense of who you are doesn't match what you see in the mirror. That would be really, really hard. But that is, that's a very rare disorder. And as we've discussed on this show with Walt Hire and with other people who are experts in this field.

Starting point is 00:19:54 Walt Hire, though, is he's experienced this himself. He is a man who presented himself as a female for decades before accepting who he is as a man. He works with people who identify as transgender. And he has found that many people who he's talking to are actually struggling with other kinds of disorders. So other kinds of body, dysmorphia, autogonophilia, depression, anxiety, other parapherias. and they're not actually getting the treatment or consideration they should be getting because the field of psychology and even pediatrics is only for really political and ideological reasons,

Starting point is 00:20:32 only allowed to do what's called gender affirmation and put kids, minors, adults, down this road of procedures, of medical procedures in order to try to get their bodies to match their inward declaration, that is not how you should be treating people that have all kinds of different disorders and different problems that are unfortunately being misdiagnosed as gender dysphoria. I have no idea what category Rachel Levine falls into. But to identify as something that is not your sex is a disorder. And no one is obligated to affirm it as reality.

Starting point is 00:21:15 So we can have compassion for someone's struggle. without affirming that which we know is not true. For the New York Times to say that Rachel Levine is female, not just transgender or a so-called trans woman, but female? I mean, come on. Like, how do people not see that that is Orwellian nonsense? Like, how do you not see that this is just as ridiculous as saying that two and two make five

Starting point is 00:21:42 or that a dog can identify as a lizard or a white person can identify as a black person? saying a man can become a woman or vice versa is just as absurd as any of those things. And we knew that as recently as 10 years ago. Rachel Levine is a man. He has male chromosomes. He had or has male genitalia. There is nothing about him that is female except for his changed name. That is why I am using he-him pronouns because I refuse to buy into the premise that biology is bigotry.

Starting point is 00:22:10 And pronouns have always corresponded with biology, not so-called gender identity. Gender identity, as we've talked about many times, is not a real scientific concept. It was made up by a doctor named John Money in the 1960s. Like I said, we've talked about this many times on the show before, so I won't get into all of the details that would take another 20 minutes to get through. You can look it up or you can go back and listen to the episode in which I explained this. But the guy was a pervert. He was an abuser.

Starting point is 00:22:38 And his theory was proven totally wrong. The boy he tried to convince was a girl, ended up realizing he was a boy when he was a teenager, he later committed suicide. He later committed suicide as an adult. It's a horrible story. And that's the origin of this concept of gender identity along with another pervert named Alfred Kinsey. So no, like I'm not going to go along with the pronoun nonsense, which gives credence to an idea that I see as very destructive, as very harmful, and again, as insane. Because it's a lie. It's a lie. Now, I want to get into the Christian perspective on this and just want to second. So as a Christian, I am called, we are called to be loving one and to be reasonable.

Starting point is 00:23:23 And love doesn't mean whatever we want it to mean. Love, according to the God who is love, as 1 John 4-8 says, is not endless tolerance or unconditional acceptance or eternal empathy. Empathy is not a fruit of the spirit. We could do a whole episode on that. I think that's another term like nuanced and like tension that is used when people really don't know how to articulate a true perspective on a particular situation. We'll get into that in another episode. But 1st Corinthians 136 says love rejoices with the truth. And the truth is, according to what we know as Christians, is that God made us male and female. We read that in Genesis 127. That fixed dichotomy is part of what it means to be made in God's image, as that verse says.

Starting point is 00:24:17 Philippians 4 or 5 says that our reasonableness as Christians should be made known to everyone. How many Christians, myself included, very often, need to hear that. So it's not by our strong feelings. It's not by our emotional reactions. It's not by even our empathy that we should primarily be known. It's our reasonableness. It's our love that is rooted in truth. Now let me read you also James 316 through 17.

Starting point is 00:24:44 For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder in every vile practice. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. Christians are to be reasonable and loving. And our love is reasonable. It is rooted in truth. if it's not rooted in truth, then it's not love. Our wisdom is reasonable. It is persuaded by facts, by logic, by solid argumentation,

Starting point is 00:25:18 but ultimately it is found in our fear of God, in our adherence to His Word. You also notice in that passage from James, the word disorder. I talked about this on Instagram yesterday, that disorder and chaos and lawlessness and confusion are always depicted very negatively in the Bible. We see from beginning to end that God is a good,

Starting point is 00:25:40 God of order. He is a God of process. He is a God of boundaries, of parameters, of definitions. And as his children, we follow these. We rejoice in them. We celebrate the confines and the constraints that he has placed upon us for our good. Read Psalm 119 and you will see the posture, the expected posture of Christians when it comes to God's rules. Christians are not called to be constantly swayed by our feelings. Toss to and fro on every wind of doctrine. I think that's in Ephesians 3, if I remember correctly. We are called to grow up into him that is the head that's also in that Ephesians passage. We are not called to besweighed by feelings, even feelings that we may feel are justified because we call them empathy. If empathy is not

Starting point is 00:26:29 rooted in truth, then that's not love. We are not called to agree with everyone. We are not called to affirm everyone's identities and decisions. You're being told that simply respecting people's humanity. That's not true. God tells us what it means to respect someone's humanity. He defines humanity as being made in God's image. He defines being made in God's image in Genesis 1-27 as being made male and female. So we don't believe as Christians in self-identity and self-defining at all. We believe in a God who made us and tells us what we are and why we're here. We take on a posture of submission, not a posture of self-identity and self-empowerment. We don't follow the God of we follow the God of Scripture.

Starting point is 00:27:10 Those two things can't go together. We can't out love, out compassion God. There are too many, I think, social justice professing Christians and certainly social justice activists who are not Christians who believe that they can out love, out compassion, God by watering down what he says in his work. But the God who is love, 1 John 4-8, we're not love. God is, so he defines it. everything that he does and says then is done from love, and he says that he made us male and female.

Starting point is 00:27:44 Therefore, it is loving to affirm that truth. No matter what everyone else says, we cannot out love, out compassion God. And we can see what happens in society in general when we deny human nature, when we go against God's design, when we perpetuate a lie. Like a man who says that he is a woman, is a woman. You get laws like those in California and Washington, which allow male sexual abusers to share prison cells with women because they've now declared themselves women. And you don't see it going the opposite, by the way. You don't see women declaring themselves men so they can transfer to the women's prison. Think about that. That is actually a law that is allowing what I just described to happen right now men, even sex offenders, transferring into women's prisons

Starting point is 00:28:31 because of their self declarations. You see the problem with self declaration, right? Like you see the problem with going against human nature. Progressivism always gets human nature wrong and always to society's detriment. You get a boy in Loudoun County, Virginia, calling himself gender fluid wearing a skirt and raping, reportedly, a ninth grade girl because their new policy in that district allows for boys who identify as non-binary or who identify as girls to go into girls' restrooms. Like how many times do we have to see this kind of stuff to realize that conservative slippery slope arguments, so-called slippery slope arguments,

Starting point is 00:29:07 their so-called fear-mongering will always manifest themselves because it's really not a slippery slope fallacy. It's just deductive reasoning. These are not one-off situations and I don't mean to highlight that one boy who I believe has probably been a victim of a predatory system who, unfortunately, has apparently not been led well by the adults in his life, but now he has made a victim of someone else. This kind of thing is happening, probably much more than we're even hearing about. This is not to say that all people who identify is transgender or predators or even close to most of them. I don't believe that. Certainly people who truly struggle with gender dysphoria, like these are not the people who are walking around. These are not the men who are walking around

Starting point is 00:29:50 naked in women's spas. Like at we spa. That is not a characteristic that you see of people who truly have gender dysphoria and are very uncomfortable in their bodies. Unfortunately, this is something that is being exploited, capitalized on by predators, because this is the world of self-declaration. You're not going to test the validity of the validity of someone's self-identity if you believe in the God of self. If you believe in this postmodern notion that truth is relative and that we get to decide who we are and what our truth is, then you have no basis to question whether or not the guy who is parading around naked in the women's locker room at We Spa in L.A. really identifies its woman. He says that he does. And apparently that is like the only

Starting point is 00:30:31 that's the only qualifier, that's the only signifier. This is the danger of self-definition and self-identification. This is the danger of going against the laws of nature that God has compassionately and wisely designed for us. So, but I'm not saying, of course, like I said, that most people who are truly transgender are predators. That is not the point that I'm making. It is to say that lies create bad policy and policy affects people, as we say so often. In the same way that lies about the police led to defunding the police, which led to a rise in homicides, victims of which are disproportionately black, that's always the case with social justice.

Starting point is 00:31:10 The intentions are to help the most vulnerable. The result is enabling predators in making victims even more vulnerable. So no. No. No. That's my answer to all of that. No. I reject it all.

Starting point is 00:31:23 I reject every bit of it from the very premise that a person can choose their gender, from the premise that gender and sex are detached somehow. I reject the misuse of pronouns. I reject the redefining of terms. I reject the superficial, destructive, lazy idea that loving compassion just mean affirming whatever everyone wants you to affirm. I reject it. And I encourage you too as well to just be courageous and clear.

Starting point is 00:31:48 And pastors, teachers of the Bible, have you been consistently clear on this? Because I promise you, the people who follow you, the people in your congregation, are wondering about this. and if you allow them to drift towards what culture says about these things in a few years, their language surrounding this issue is going to be indistinguishable from the rest of the world's because the world has a very, the secular world has a very strong PR team. They are all the global and national institutions that we see and certainly all of the mainstream media outlets, even outlets like Fox News and the New York Post to use feminine female pronouns

Starting point is 00:32:28 for males. And so it's very easy to be swayed by the culture and to believe that that's what it looks like to be loving. So pastors, Bible teachers, anyone who is discipling young people or disciplining anyone, make sure that you are consistent and clear and courageous on this because people are wondering about this. And if they're not getting their answers from you, a trusted teacher of the word, a Christian who is supposed to be disciplining them in this, then I promise you they are going to get their answers from a random 21-year-old on TikTok who says that, you know, Jesus is a transgender communist. They're going to get their answers from somewhere.

Starting point is 00:33:04 Don't you want the answers to be from you? And if you're scared of being controversial, if you're scared that you're going to offend people, then I just have to question your courage on sharing a much more controversial truth, which is the gospel. Like I always say, this is a Genesis 1 issue. First chapter of the Bible, very foundational, male and female. I have a hard time believing that for a very long time, you are going to be able to defend a much more controversial truth, which is John 146, that Jesus is the way the truth and the life.

Starting point is 00:33:36 No one comes to the father except through him. If you're not even going to defend and define what God defends and defines in the first chapter of the Bible. Again, this is fundamental to what it means to be human, to be made in God's image, and to deny and to redefine what it means to be male and female is to try to deny and redefine not just what it means to be human or not just humanity, but also the divine. And Christians should really have no part of that. This isn't difficult. Like it's difficult in some ways because it certainly takes courage, but it's not complex. Like it's very, very simple. I mean, I'm just so grateful to the Lord that

Starting point is 00:34:17 he has offered us so much clarity and wisdom and all of this. I really hate confusion. And I'm just so grateful that the Lord has given us such a strong and firm and clear foundation on something that is now apparently a very controversial topic. Margaret Atwood seems to somewhat agree with what we're saying. I don't think from a Christian perspective, but she seems to see the importance of, you know, saying that women are women. She wrote the Handmaid's Tale, which liberal feminists have interpreted as a tale of the dangers of the dangers of American patriarchy. They, you know, whip out their red robes whenever there's anti-abortion policy or when there's a judge like Brett Kavanaugh being confirmed as a justice. They claim that everything is a handmaid's tail.

Starting point is 00:35:04 It's yet to manifest itself. It's super embarrassing, honestly, when they do this. It's weird. But they love drama. Liberal feminists love drama. And they love Margaret Atwood for helping them create this drama. And you know, the book obviously turned into a show on Hulu or something. I've never seen it. However, Atwood tweeted out an article from the Toronto star titled, Why Can't We Say Woman Anymore? The article criticizes the language that we've now adopted, person with a uterus, et cetera. But the author, I don't believe, is any kind of conservative. And Atwood is certainly a leftist.

Starting point is 00:35:39 If you go to her Twitter timeline, she's always posting about climate change and things like that. But people just went after her, calling her a turf, calling her a bigot, telling her to do better, just slamming her. there were, of course, people who respectfully disagreed with her and tried to get her to change her mind or clarify her position or things like that. And even if I disagree with their pushback, I appreciate people who can respectfully have that dialogue. But I'm sure that she sees what we should be able to see that this is really a misogynistic movement, whether the intention is that or not. Like, these people actually hate women and want to diminish what makes womanhood unique. And like you're seeing that we're not having this big, debate about men and women who want to identify as women who want to identify as men. Like we're not really talking about that. That's because we know that women are particularly vulnerable and we are being, we are the ones who are being forced to change our language. We are the ones who are being forced to give up our privacy, our protection, our safety, and it doesn't seem to really go the other way. Like, how do you not see that? People are

Starting point is 00:36:47 arguing against Margaret Atwood that you can. still say woman, you should just use other words too, and, you know, that's the point. That's what they're saying in response to her. Well, actually, if you look at the CDC, for example, the word woman is often replaced with ridiculous terms like people with uteruses. Only women have uteruses, guys. Only women give birth. That's never going to change no matter how much you want to try. Declarations just don't have the power to change that. And Hammaid's Tale, they live in this totalitarian patriarchal state called Gilead. Well, get this.

Starting point is 00:37:28 So I saw someone post a screenshot of this, and this was just crazy. I couldn't believe that it was true. And I had to look up the article myself just to verify it. So back in 2019, the New York Times reported on a company called Gilead, which has made a new HIV drug. So here's what the, so the title of the article is FDA approves new HIV, prevention drug, but not for everyone. The drugs maker, Gilead Sciences, tested it only in men and transgender women. The FDA noted some activists and scientists said the approval

Starting point is 00:38:04 sets a dangerous precedent by allowing companies to dodge the expensive trials needed to test medicines on cisgender women in other groups at risk of HIV infection. So men and men, because transgender woman is the terminology for men who identify as women. So this company only tested this HIV drug in men and men who identify as women. So here's what the, here's the byline for the summary under the title of this article says, citing a lack of evidence, the agency will require Gilead to conduct additional trials and individuals. Ready? individuals who have receptive vaginal sex.

Starting point is 00:38:50 That's the new term that the FDA is using, or at least in 2019, for women. Individuals who have receptive vaginal sex. But yes, it's people like me who are just reducing women to their biology. Like, think about this. Think about this. Think about the consequences of something like this. I'm not sure how much longer agencies like the agencies like the,

Starting point is 00:39:15 FDA or even going to be able to get away with saying something like that. Think about that. Like we constantly hear this nonsensical maxim, trans women are women. And they believe that. Like the people who say that really believe that trans women are women. Like that doesn't even mean anything. But so if a company tests a drug only on men and so called transgender women and both the company and the FDA, which is already so corrupt and left wing in many ways anyway, have to accept that trans women are women, that's the maxim, that's the religious doctrine that you have to buy into in order to be a compassionate person and accepted and polite society. Will a company be able to get away with saying, will the FDA be able to get away with saying

Starting point is 00:40:00 this drug has been tested on men and women when it's actually only been tested on men? Like we definitely see where that's going. Like if you believe trans women are women and a company says this has been tested on men and women and they don't even have to specify at all, then we're just going to assume that it's been tested on everyone when it hasn't. Like you see, that's just one of the many ways that medicine and that science are going to be bit to delusion in a way that once again is going to harm women. men and women's bodies are different. We react to illnesses differently, to medications differently.

Starting point is 00:40:42 This is one reason why God hates chaos and why we as Christians should hate it. It's not loving. It's not loving. Do not give an inch. Don't give an inch on this. It's not a loving thing to do. It's not a reasonable thing to do. It's not a truthful thing to do. So when I see the conservative outlets, like I said earlier, like Fox News or the New York Post or other conservatives using, quote, preferred pronouns, which I have seen, even some of my conservative friend and influencers do. I just want you guys to know that you are enabling this stuff. You're enabling the madness that really hurts people, that hurts women. Speaking of hurting people, by the way, in all of this, people are still claiming that Dave Chappelle hurt them in his Netflix special, which we discussed last week. I wrote an article about this for World Magazine 2. Chappelle published a new Netflix special called The Closer and what she says,

Starting point is 00:41:36 Ginger is a fact. He says that he's on J.K. Rowling's side, on TeamTurf, as it were, that everyone, he said that everyone got here by being birthed by a woman. And people have been freaking out about this ever since, even though he makes fun of every other kind of person imaginable. I can't even, I'm not saying that I've been this Dave Chappelle fan for a long time. Obviously, as a Christian, there are a lot of crass things and appropriate things that he says that I don't like and I don't agree with. But have I ever tried to cancel him because he is, you know, hated on white people or made fun of Christians or conservatives or things like that. Like, remember when he went after Candace Owens and he said

Starting point is 00:42:14 some really rude things about Candace Owens, she laughed about it. She didn't try to get him canceled. Like, this is a huge difference between the right and the left. When the right gets offended, they typically, they are getting offended for, they are typically, not always. I know there's some cancel culture on the right and some snowflakery on the right, certainly. But the indignation manifests itself differently. It is not you hurt my particular marginalized identity and now I want to see your entire life destroyed. It is, hey, we think this is inappropriate. This is wrong. This is inaccurate. And here's why we think that this shouldn't be promoted anymore. Like the cuties movie when they had scantily clad 11-year-old girls in very strange,

Starting point is 00:43:03 suggestive positions on their advertisement. Yeah, like that seems legitimate for Christians to say, you know what, this isn't appropriate. These are children. And as children, they can't actually technically consent to this kind of stuff. Like, this is drunk. You see how that is different than saying this comedian made a joke about the group that I represent as well as tons of other groups. And therefore, it needs to be taken off of Netflix and the head of Netflix needs design. It's, I mean, this is exactly what Dave Chappelle said would, said what happened. He made fun of the LGBTQ activist crowd for being more sensitive than any other group that he has ever criticized or made fun of. So some Netflix employees staged a walkout yesterday to protest the

Starting point is 00:43:54 special. And then a couple counter protesters showed up. They were, they had signs that just said jokes are funny. We like Dave. Like they weren't saying anything inflammatory. It was just kind of funny, but let me show you a little clip of something that went down. Okay, so you didn't see the little part after that. But so one of the guys, if you were listening to this, one of the protesters against Netflix and against Dave Chappelle broke the sign of a guy who had a sign that just said, like, I like Dave. And he was kind of sarcastically and funnily singing, trans lives matter. And so one of the protesters took his sign, broke it, and like the stick that the sign was on,

Starting point is 00:44:59 he gave it back to the counter protester, the pro Dave Chappelle protester, and then starts yelling, he has a weapon, he is a weapon, he is a weapon. I mean, how funny, how funny is that? And then, of course, the counter protester made fun of that was like, oh, yeah, I have a weapon that you literally just created and then gave to me. oh my gosh these people are not well uh so these are again the same people who said the right was freaking out about an advertisement you know the cuties advertisement with the scantily clad young girls but they're mad because chapelle said that we all came from women i mean what what what you guys um also

Starting point is 00:45:40 yesterday was uh apparently international pronouns day i mean i love grammar so of international pronouns Day is a way to celebrate one part of grammar. That's great. I love that. I love international pronouns day, but apparently that's not what it is. Apparently, according to the State Department, all right, the State Department. They tweeted today on International Pronouns Day. We share many people, we share why many people list pronouns on their email and social

Starting point is 00:46:12 media profiles. So that's our governments, guys. That's our government. Once again, insane. In 1984, Orwell says there was truth and there was untruth. And if you clung to the truth, even against the whole world, you were not mad. It's really important for us to maintain our sanity. Stay reasonable.

Starting point is 00:46:35 Stay truthful. Stay sane. Cling to what you know to be true. Two and two make four. A man is a man. A woman is a woman. You will be vindicated either in this life or the next. So we can cling to that.

Starting point is 00:46:48 Speaking of just awesome women, girl power, if you will, and truth and people speaking up about unpopular things in a way that is eloquent and persuasive. I just wanted to end on a great positive inspiring note. Condoleezza Rice went into the Lionsden on The View and she pushed back against the tenets of critical race theory. Here's what she said. A whole issue of critical race theory and what is and is not being taught. I come out of an academic. institution and this is something that academics debate, what is the role of race and so forth. And let me be very clear, I grew up in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I couldn't go to a movie theater or to a restaurant with my parents. I went to segregated schools till we moved to Denver.

Starting point is 00:47:34 My parents never thought I was going to grow up in a world without prejudice, but they also told me that's somebody else's problem, not yours. You're going to overcome it, and you are going to be anything you want to be. And that's the message that I think we ought to be, to kids. One of the worries that I have about the way that we're talking about race is that it either seems so big that somehow white people now have to feel guilty for everything that happened in the past. I don't think that's very productive. Or black people have to feel disempowered by race. I would like black kids to be completely empowered, to know that they are beautiful in their blackness, but in order to do that, I don't have to make white kids feel bad.

Starting point is 00:48:18 for being white. So somehow this is a conversation that has gone in the wrong direction. Yep, 100% love Condoleezza Rice. And you know, I think that's how the majority of Americans feel. And yeah, we have let these radical ideologues take over our institutions and the consequences are just or dire. But let's listen to an inspiring woman like Condoleezza Rice. It's very simple. It's very simple. And isn't that the kind of world that we want? So thank you, Condoleezza. Lisa Rice for articulating that so well. All right. Can you hear my, this is my drum roll. So I'm announcing the winner of our giveaway. So if you remember 500th episode, we said that there was going to be a giveaway winner. And we've been trying to figure out like, how are we going to choose

Starting point is 00:49:10 the winner? We randomly selected people, we randomly selected a person out of the people who sent a voicemail. So this is, if you did not win, it's not because you didn't have a wonderful voicemail, meaningful voicemail that you sent me. I've listened to a lot of them. Thank you so, so much for all of the encouragement and the love that you sent me. It really does mean a lot to me. Maybe we will play some of those every week in the coming weeks just to kind of give you guys and show, you know, my appreciation to you guys. But I randomly selected someone who left a voicemail and the person who was going to get a $250 Carly Jean Los Angeles gift card. I've got my Carly Jean-Los Angeles shirt on. They just sent me some new stuff. I love them so much. And when you

Starting point is 00:49:50 support them, by the way, you are supporting a company that shares your values. They're awesome. And they've just got really great stuff. So the person who wins gets a $250 Carly Jean-Los gift card. They get a Chamonie gift set that is the, that's the skincare line that we promote as a sponsor on this podcast. And then a family feast bundle from Good Ranchers. This is an awesome, awesome, awesome giveaway prize. So, without further ado, it is Katie from Kansas. Hopefully you're listening to this. We'll post this on social media too. Katie, you left me a voicemail saying how God is used relatable to give you the confidence to talk about politics, something that maybe before you didn't feel, you know, fully

Starting point is 00:50:37 equipped or even desirous to do. But you have now written letters to your school board, to the hospital board about the things that matter super proud of you. Thankful that you listen to Relatable. I hope that you enjoy all of your prizes. We will get in touch with you to get your contact information to send these things to you. Thank you guys so much. If you love Relatable, please leave us a five-star review on Apple Podcast. Also, like I said yesterday, I'm going to be taking some of y'all's funny voicemails

Starting point is 00:51:10 about the millennial paralysis that you have surrounding doing Little Aaron. and little tasks that I have chronicled a lot on Instagram for the past week. And so I want to hear from you like, what is that one thing that you just can't make yourself do giving your clothes to goodwill, whatever it is? And why haven't you done it? So leave a message at 682-503-1369 to tell us about that. Maybe we'll play it next week. 682-503-1369.

Starting point is 00:51:42 All right, love you guys. See you back here on Monday. Hey, this is Steve Day. If you're listening to Allie, you already understand that the biggest issues facing our country aren't just political. They're moral, spiritual, and rooted in what we believe is true about God, humanity, and reality itself. On the Steve Day show, we take the news of the day and tested against first principles, faith, truth, and objective reality. We don't just chase narratives and we don't offer false comfort. We ask the hard questions and follow the answers wherever they leave, even when it's unpopular.

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