Dennis Prager Show - The Consequence of LGBTQIA+ Being Trendy
Aired: 2024-03-20
Duration: 04:22


=== It's In To Declare (04:22) ===

[00:00:00]  I was speaking right before the show.
[00:00:02]  In other words, just a few minutes ago, I had a 20-minute conversation with an LDS, or a Mormon family, that I have great affection for.
[00:00:16]  They're a great help to PragerU.
[00:00:19]  And they were telling me that in their area of Utah, It is widespread in the major public school of this city.
[00:00:36]  I mean, it's a city.
[00:00:38]  It's not a town.
[00:00:39]  It's a city in Utah.
[00:00:40]  It's not Salt Lake City.
[00:00:44]  It is in to declare yourself a trans.
[00:00:54]  Are you aware of that?
[00:00:55]  It's in.
[00:00:57]  You say, of course.
[00:00:59]  Well, that means, of course you're aware.
[00:01:03]  I want you to reflect on that, you who are listening, for a moment.
[00:01:09]  This is Utah, generally considered a conservative state.
[00:01:16]  And my only question, and I'd like you to respond.
[00:01:24]  What do you think parents are thinking in America when they send their kid to a regular school, private or public?
[00:01:34]  In other words, not a specifically religious school or charter school that they know the values of, or homeschool.
[00:01:44]  The basic three alternatives.
[00:01:47]  What are they thinking?
[00:01:49]  Are they thinking...
[00:01:51]  This won't affect my child?
[00:01:55]  And if they are thinking that, why?
[00:02:02]  I wouldn't.
[00:02:05]  And I have quite strong values, but it wouldn't matter.
[00:02:14]  Oh, and early in my career, I had a woman on.
[00:02:17]  I'll never forget.
[00:02:18]  I don't remember her name.
[00:02:20]  She wrote a book and I had her on as a guest.
[00:02:24]  And her thesis, or maybe I didn't even have her on, maybe I just read from her piece.
[00:02:29]  Her thesis was that peers are generally, not always, but generally more impactful than parents.
[00:02:41]  Are you familiar with that thesis?
[00:02:43]  And it bothered me, but it did not strike me as wrong.
[00:02:55]  You spend more time with your peers and your peers are your peers.
[00:02:59]  So my producer is saying they're more impactful in the short term but not the long term.
[00:03:11]  That's fine.
[00:03:12]  But it doesn't address my issue.
[00:03:14]  He would agree.
[00:03:16]  If they influence you, if you have issues, you know, you may really be in the wrong body.
[00:03:25]  It may be a short-term thing, but it damages you the long term until you detransition or kill yourself.
[00:03:36]  I saw data that suicide after transition is as great as before transition.
[00:03:48]  Generally speaking, mentally healthy children do not wake up one day and say, oh, I'm in the wrong body.
[00:03:56]  I'm really the other quote-unquote gender.
[00:04:01]  I always wonder about that anyway.
[00:04:03]  How do you know what the other gender is like?
[00:04:06]  You don't have their brain or their body.
[00:04:10]  How do you know?
[00:04:12]  It's a wild guess.
[00:04:16]  Is there any one of you listening who really knows what it is to be the other sex?