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Feb. 22, 2025 - Liberty Hangout - Kaitlin Bennett
13:50
Trans Student Is Scared Of Florida
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Like this is like why I'm scared of being in my own fucking home.
You know?
Like I'm from here.
I'm like my mom moved around a lot so I'm from here the keys all that jazz.
I really love the culture here and all that jazz and it sucks that like I don't feel super safe being me and only when you say you don't feel safe like what do you think's gonna happen?
I mean I already get weird stairs at Walmart and whatnot.
Some people are people are freaks let's be real.
It's just or like it's what I worry about.
It's the anxiety, it's the fear and it's probably the reason why I need to get out this sane and whatnot.
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So you just walked out here.
You had no clue that Charlie Kirk is literally on your campus right now.
Oh cool.
Yeah, no idea.
I just got out of my filming class and whatnot.
I just, I mean, I saw it in a crowd.
I'm like, cool, I got some face shots, but I did not realize that was going on.
Yeah.
Cool.
So you're going to be totally shocked when you walked up there to see Charlie Kirk.
Yeah, a little bit.
Do you welcome him on your campus?
Do you like, are you glad that he's here?
Whilst I think everybody has a voice and whatnot, I think...
Sometimes people are a little bit too...
You know?
What type of endangerment of others has he spouted?
Just like, I'm literally transgender and whatnot, and I'm very closeted in this state and like all that environment is fing scary to be around.
So honestly.
Are you saying that he has endangered trans people?
He's contributed to an environment which has become just mainly made things toxic and whatnot and it's probably the reason why I need to get out of this state and whatnot.
Yeah, so where would you go?
I got out before I have a partner up in Pennsylvania and whatnot, but I came back down to finish college and whatnot.
And as soon as I came down, like the laws were different.
It was harder to get like hormones that I need to like be alive and stuff.
You said your hormone pills to be alive?
Yeah, I mean without.
Explain that to me.
So what would happen if you didn't have those?
Well, what happened when I didn't have those is that I life didn't have color to it.
It was just a series of depressions, whatnot.
And I didn't want to be trans and whatnot.
I just wanted to exist, wanted to be a person, you know?
I didn't care about gender either way, you know?
But, you know, as this kind of monkey was on my back, it was just like, if I don't deal with this, in the end, it became, which one's more humiliating, you know, go to the doctor or jump off this bridge.
Like, if I end up swimming back from that bridge into my car, it would have been just honestly a hassle, embarrassing, and all that jazz.
So I decided to transition instead.
And if I go off that stuff, I'm going to get menopause syndromes at that point because I'm five years in.
I'm going to start getting testosterone again.
That's going to make my skin greasy.
It's going to make everything just feel dull.
It's going to f up my entire endocrine system.
Would you say you're kind of, it's necessary at this point for you to continue taking this?
Continue functioning naturally normally and like in my day-to-day.
And like, I'm closeted.
I don't bring it out too much, but like, it's my life and I just want medicine.
Like, I just want to continue to be a person.
Yeah.
And it's progressively getting more difficult to do that.
Yeah.
Sorry if that's extremely a bummer, but shit like this is like why I'm scared of being in my own fing home.
You know?
Like I'm from here.
I'm like, my mom moved around a lot, so I'm pretty sure the keys, all that jazz.
I really love the culture here and all that jazz.
And it sucks that like I don't feel super safe being me.
So when you say you don't feel safe, like what do you think's gonna happen?
If I present femininely and whatnot, more femininely, less androgiously, I mean, I already get weird stairs at Walmart and whatnot.
Some people are, people are freaks, let's be real.
It's just, or like, it's what I worry about.
It's the anxiety, it's the fear.
Even maybe I'll be fine, but that like constant pressure is intense.
Okay, when did you first start thinking that maybe you were a woman rather than a male?
Yeah, so God.
Folks, I need everybody to like make sure so people can get through here.
We need to make sure all of us.
Oh, yeah, it's all good.
It's all good.
It's one of those things where you don't have the language for it.
I just want to be that way.
Do you remember what age you were?
That's one of those, like, I remember instances, like incidents and whatnot, where like in middle school, there was like a little short fan fiction of like, oh, my father died young, my grandfather died young.
And I was like, maybe there's a weird family curse.
So I wrote like little fan fiction myself, like, ooh, an evil witch who turned you into a girl, but you didn't realize to get away from the curse.
But would that really be a bad thing?
Or like these little incidents that like kind of track back and back and back, but without the language to say, hey, this is an option.
Hey, you can do this.
As soon as I learned that like hormones were a thing, being trans was a thing, I nearly dumped my girlfriend and like went to do that, even if it means like to cascading everything.
And when my girlfriend said, no, you're not dumping me, I'm like, okay, I'll just forget everything I heard, you know?
So it took like a year later to like, okay, I need to deal with this, you know?
So if you're not a fan of Charlie Kirk, I assume you might not be a fan of people like Matt Walsh and Michael Knowles as well.
So can I ask you his famous question?
What is a woman?
So it's one of the two major phenotypes of human being.
In biology and whatnot, there's something called a bell curve and whatnot.
And the two kind of big things are male and female and like archetypal stuff.
You have like your average and most average man is on the top of the bell curve on one end and your most average female is the top of the bell curve on one other.
I'm just looking for a definition.
When and like these are on a spectrum and whatnot.
These walk through.
A female, a woman is just like that broad category of kind of you know it when you see it kind of thing.
So how would I know it if I saw it?
It's the social signifiers and whatnot.
Nobody's gonna check your chromosomes, you know?
How am I gonna look into your DNA?
Am I gonna what?
Check your pants for every single person?
What are you a freak?
No, if someone looks like a woman, if someone looks like a man, you just kind of assume they are and if they're a weird in-between thing, well, hey, well, you're queer like me.
Yeah, yeah.
But how do we know what a woman is?
So like you transition from male to female.
Yeah, hopefully.
Right.
There's always going to be a gray area.
There's always people who are intersex.
There's always going to be that kind of blurry in the lines.
There's nothing that's going to be super concrete, catalogical on earth.
Everything about our biology has one, has every phenical, every trait of the female is in every male and every trait of maleness is in the female, you know?
Okay.
We are people.
You know, you can't just like make two boxes say, this is a man, this is a woman.
You know, like there's, there's blurriness to that, you know?
Because people like him and like you said, Matt Walsh, it's his famous question, would say that a woman is a human female.
Yeah.
And that's, that's what they are.
It's Xander.
Oh my goodness.
You guys remember Xander?
Hi, how are you?
You went crazy in my last video.
Everyone loved you, they said you did a great...
Yeah.
Yeah.
Sorry, I'm elaborating.
Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
It's okay.
I know.
They would just say that, like, a woman is someone with XX chromosomes.
Yeah.
And that's how they were born and they can't change it.
There are, there's tons of intersex people.
Sometimes there's XXX chromosomes.
Sometimes there's XXY chromosomes.
Is it, how do you enforce that?
And people like that want to enforce that through Byzantine measures, through gender checks, through like all this shit.
Do you think, do you think that this ideology of transgenderism has any dangerous parts to it?
Is there anything unprecedented that bad things that are happening that you're like, actually, that's not good.
And I want to scale back on that.
People want to bring this up as an ideology because we're people on the periphery, people who inherently challenge the categorical incentives that people like Walsh Institute.
When it's just male, when it's just female, when there's no room for gray, that's our existence is a f you to that personally.
And that is what they think is dangerous and that's why they want to crush us.
To be fair, I don't think they want to crush you.
I think they want to crush the ideology that is remove us from public existence.
No, they don't.
I promise you that they do not want to do that at all.
No one wants to, especially conservatives, especially people who are pro-life, they don't want to get you out of existence at all.
They don't want to do that to you.
They want to, actually, I think they're the ones who care about trans people the most because they're like, you are perfect the way you were born.
If you were a man, when you were conceived in your mother's womb, you're perfect the way that you are.
And if you're a woman, you're perfect the way that you are.
And if you're having trouble with your identity and stuff, then let's work through that.
I think their qualms with it is that it's hurting a lot of people.
It's just like you said, like if you stop taking your hormones, a lot of terrible side effects would happen.
And so you kind of have no choice at this point.
So can I ask how old you are?
I'm 26.
I'm 26.
I've been on it for about five years, and my life is categorically better with my mom.
Okay.
Yeah.
And what you said about God made man and woman.
Do you, I mean, okay.
With God creating you perfectly as you are from the womb and whatnot, do you, did we all are different from our parents.
We're all different from one another and whatnot.
So how, why does being trans not fit into that category?
Some people have blonde hair, some people have blue eyes, some people have brown.
We all have these differences and these echoes of one another.
You are who you are.
And I wish people would affirm children and young adults who are struggling with their identity before they go off and they take hormones that then have side effects and they can't get off of.
I think it's like 98% of minors, if they are experiencing gender dysphoria or confusion about their gender and you don't get them on hormones and if you don't get them any surgeries, minors, this is beyond 18.
Because in developmental psychology, there are times around like two or three and whatnot where children will begin to understand the social roles they're placed upon.
Boys play the trucks, girls play at the Barbies and whatnot.
And they're going to experiment with those social rules and then most 99% of the time they're going to conform to the social rules they're given because this is their first interaction with that.
Now, when you say with minors and whatnot, are we talking about that very natural part of development that every human goes through?
That does not relate to transgenderism.
That's normal child development.
Right, it is normal.
It is normal child development.
What I'm talking about is about 98% of the time, if you don't engage in that idea that a child, a minor, specifically teenagers, I'm younger than 18, if you don't engage in that and if you don't affirm that they are the opposite gender of what they are, 98% of the time, they will grow out of that and they never actually end up transitioning or whatever.
So that's why I would say like people like Charlie and Matt Walsh kind of say that it's more of like an ideology.
There's a reason why there are more self-identifying trans people today than there have been in decades past.
And I know a lot of people say there's more people who are left-handed than when there were when we persecuted them.
I don't think, I don't think at all that there are more just there's been trans people just hidden out and wouldn't want to come out to but you talk about how it's so scary to be trans.
No, it's not scary to be trans.
It's scary to be inflicted with the pain and transness is not the disease.
It's the cure for a specific kind of suffering.
And when people deny you that care, they are denying you treatment for a specific kind of suffering that most people don't understand.
And I'm just asking for empathy.
Yeah, so I empathize with you wholeheartedly and I think do you want us to move again?
Yeah, so if you don't mind, the biggest thing is it's like whatever we have here folks is like causing difficulty for people trying to get a lot of people.
Oh, I do not mind this, but we'll just need to make sure that we're not.
You know what?
It was so nice talking to you.
I'm going to let you go because, you know, it was different.
You too, you too.
Things were pretty peaceful today, but I still brought security with me.
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