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Dec. 12, 2015 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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The Nadir of Western Civilization
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She said, stop being trans or leave.
So that, to me, stop being trans isn't Something I could do.
It'd be like telling me to stop being, you know, six foot two and or leave.
And I was who I was.
I was trans before we married.
I was a trans parent for 23 years.
It floored me, it scared me because I didn't know how to not be trans.
You know okay, fair enough, fair enough I.
I have no problem with people saying, you know, I want to be a woman or I want to be a man.
I'm an adult, I can make these decisions.
That's fine.
I have no problem with that whatsoever.
I'm a pretty permissive guy when it comes to this sort of thing.
Stephanie Walsh, welcome to Daily Extra.
You are one of the people profiled in the Transgender project web series and, as well, the TV show.
Am I A Boy Or girl?
Why did you decide to go so public with your story?
Um, come on, let's be honest with ourselves.
Everyone likes a bit of attention every now and again, don't they?
I paid a pretty heavy price for transitioning and so at a certain point I thought I've already lost everything in it.
That is the stupidest way of state.
That is the stupidest way of spelling Stephanie.
I've ever seen just what everything has happened.
I'm gonna be me and I'm gonna show other people that it's okay to be feminine for a guy, and so by coming completely out of the closet, it just liberated me to the point where let's do this.
I think we've got different definitions of feminine.
I don't I'm not trying to be mean, but seriously this, this is a guy in an outfit.
It's, it's not.
I mean there are some transgender people who really you couldn't tell.
I mean there was a video going around a while ago of one transgender woman who was literally going up to guys and asking them out.
And then they would.
They would say yes, and then they'd end up finding out that she still had a penis and then they'd be dumping her.
And oh my god, how could they, how dare they, dump her for having a penis, but you wouldn't know, because she looked so much like a fucking woman.
But this guy, i'm sorry dude you, you don't, you really don't.
Let's talk about it and let people know that this is okay.
2007, when I actually stepped forward and started getting myself educated as to who I was and, oh god, the indoctrination begins, what this was.
Uh, I was pretty naive, but that naivete would quickly come to a crashing halt.
At age 46, after 23 years of marriage and seven kids, Stephanie realized she wasn't a cross-dresser, she was.
What I mean if you're cross-dressing then is, what was transgender?
A person whose gender is different than the sex they were assigned right?
I see, at birth i'm genderqueer, i'm queer and queer.
So she joined Tumblr, got it.
So, having said that, what have you heard from people?
Um, a lot of feedback.
There's a lot of positive feedback.
Look at this guy's face.
You know, i'm not really looking at like this 47 year old guy who's dressed up like a little girl.
I'm not.
I'm honestly looking at an adult that I should take seriously.
Uh, there's a lot more people that are trans, like.
A lot of people come out to me.
Um, I get guys that you wouldn't think, that are want to wear like cops and bikers and can I wear a dress?
So it gets very playful because you look at people and you think you understand what they're all about.
You know, when you see a guy that's 300 pounds with a goatee, who pulls in in a Harley and uh is going through my closet saying, can I wear this dress, you know, or can I kiss you when i'm wearing the dress?
You don't expect it, that's right.
Stephanie has moved on, believing that she will never be accepted by her wife and children.
These days.
She's got a job plowing snow and has a new family made up of friends and a new relationship.
I'm not surprised that her wife and I i'm using the correct pronouns because i'm nice that way I can't believe that her wife isn't okay with this.
I mean, you marry some big, six foot two burly guy only to find out that he wants to dress as a woman.
I mean, I can see why she would be disappointed by this.
There's days I forget my past.
I can actually go a week without even thinking about what was before man.
So it's a fresh start.
It's interesting because it's new to me and i'm getting accepted in a way i've never been.
There's unconditional love.
I'm starting to feel like we have a quasi family that we're creating and i'm allowed to be exactly who I am and I don't have to apologize or make excuses why i'm different.
Really, you didn't have unconditional love from your wife and children.
They, they would just say, well, we might love you, but only on the condition that you don't I don't know, I guess dress like a woman.
I can't deny I was married.
I can't deny I have children.
But i've moved forward now and i've gone back to um being a child.
I don't want to be an adult right now.
And what okay, hang on, hang on right.
So you you, you can't deny that you were married and have children.
So I mean, and you, you had like five or six children or something.
So what the fuck?
Do you not think that you owe them any kind of responsibility as a parent like oh, seven kids, sorry.
Do you?
Do you know?
Do you not think you owe them something as as their parent?
Do you not think that you should be something for them?
I mean, I mean I, I think I should be for my son.
So I just live my life like I couldn't when I was in school.
How are things in your life now?
Well, I um, have a mummy and daddy uh, adopted mummy and daddy.
Who what what what, what?
I mean I, I am actually lost to words.
I am actually just baffled.
Baffled beyond all reason.
Why are you two entertaining this?
It's one thing for this fucking 47-year-old dude to fucking go off and do his own thing.
He's like, right, I'm going to dress like a little girl.
I'm going to have curls on my hair.
And I'm just going to pretend that I'm not actually a giant burly man with a bunch of kids and an ex-wife.
Okay.
Alright.
I mean, that's not good.
You know, I'm sure the kids are just not happy with this.
I'm sure the ex-wife's pretty devastated, but fine.
Okay, I can accept it.
I can be like, okay, fine, whatever.
Just go on your merry way.
But what are you two fucking idiots doing enabling this fucking craziness of, you know, I just don't feel like being an adult now.
I mean, what?
Do you not pay taxes?
You know, do you fucking do you not drive?
What the fuck?
Are totally comfortable with me being a little girl.
How?
Just why?
What is wrong with you people?
And their children and their grandchildren are totally supportive.
In fact, her youngest granddaughter, when I was eight, a year ago, I was eight, and she was seven.
And she said to me, I want you to be the little sister, so I'll be nine.
I said, well, I don't mind going to six, so I've been six ever since.
What the fuck is this bullshit?
Why is this being covered in some sort of news program?
Why is anyone entertaining any of this nonsense?
Oh, I'll just be sick.
Fuck yourself.
You're not sick.
You're a fucking old man.
Motherfucker.
I am.
I am so angry about this.
I'm so anxious because this is just bullshit.
There's nothing about this that isn't bullshit.
Fucking...
Oh, I'll be six...
No, you won't.
You'll be fucking old.
Deal with it.
Learn to deal with it.
It's just the way you have to be because this is the way that things are.
But we have a great time.
And we color, we do kids' stuff.
It's called play therapy.
No medication, no suicide thoughts.
And I just get to play.
Well, there we have it, ladies and gentlemen.
This is what we have come to in the West.
Grown men, not only, I mean, again, I can.
If they're going to get surgery and change themselves into women, fine.
I have no problem with that.
None at all.
It's their choice.
They're adults.
They can choose to do this.
But now we have got to the fact that the point where grown men are not getting the surgery.
They're just dressing as women.
And then they're just going to pretend that they're children.
and they're going to be treated as if they're children by certain adults and allowed to play with children if for some reason and this is just something we're supposed to accept.
This is just totally normal.
There's nothing wrong with this.
You know, I mean, the Russians must be thinking this is hilarious.
Look at the degenerate West and their fucking emotionally and intellectually crippled fucking selves.
just oh man there is just there is a Rubicon that we have crossed here that's This is the thing.
This is just, I have nothing further to say about this.
This is just disgusting.
Just, no.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
You're not a six-year-old girl, you freak.
Someone has to tell you this.
You are not a fucking six-year-old girl.
You are a grown man with seven children.
You have responsibilities.
You have things that you have to do.
You cannot simply go, you know what, I'm going to be a little girl.
No, it doesn't fucking work that way.
You aren't trans aging or any bullshit like this.
You are not any of us.
And the people enabling this, you are fucking foul.
There is something wrong with you.
Deeply wrong with all of you.
To want to enable this.
I am just...
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