Importance of Your Identity - Ep 26-313

And I know we're supposed to pretend this is complicated. We're supposed to carefully navigate the language. "Well, the person was assigned..." No. Stop. At some point, a civilization has to be able to describe what happened without needing a legal team and a thesaurus. A man stabbed four people. There. Everybody survived. The English language survived. Nobody's pronouns were injured in the production of that sentence. And this is part of what has become so bizarre about the transgender debate. I've watched enough of these stories over the years to notice a pattern that a lot of people don't seem particularly interested in noticing. When somebody from the trans community commits an act of violence, the identity component suddenly becomes fascinatingly complicated. Maybe it's irrelevant. Maybe it's unfair to mention. Maybe we're stigmatizing an entire community. Maybe we should focus on the individual. But if somebody commits an act of violence while identifying with some other group, suddenly the group identity is extremely important. Funny how that works. Identity matters enormously... until it becomes inconvenient. Then identity disappears. And I'm not suggesting every violent act committed by somebody who identifies as transgender proves anything about every transgender person. That's stupid. I'm saying something much simpler: If there is a pattern, we should be allowed to examine it. That's what adults do. We notice things. We ask questions. We compare facts. We don't decide in advance which facts are permitted to exist. And that's where I think the transgender issue gets much deeper than pronouns. Because I believe the fundamental premise is a psychological dysfunction. I don't believe a biological male can literally become a biological female because he says he is one. Kevin Jackson has been called, the "white-collar" Joe Rogan. Given their similar backgrounds in TV, comedy, and martial arts, it's easy to see why people enjoy Kevin's show so much. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.