Debate on Gun Rights and Trans Issues

Now that I'm getting back to debating and actually posting again, um, the

question that everyone's asking me, the most important question on everyone's

mind,

were my stats actually counting or not counting gang violence?

So just some background, Charlie was advocating for the

DOJ to strip gun rights from trans Americans

because in his eyes, there were too many mass shootings

perpetrated by trans individuals.

I pointed out that not only are there very few trans mass shooters,

there are also

very few compared to how rare trans people are

already. Essentially per capita, they're still twenty times

underrepresented.

So his question, counting or not counting gang violence,

was essentially

acknowledging that the Gun Violence Archive, where I get the stats

from, pulls from gang violence, which we're obviously not talking about,

so

we would have to accommodate the stats against that.

So my response would be, "Okay, great, I'll even say that

it's muddied. I'll concede that it's muddied,

but then you're using muddied stats

to clarify why trans people should have their guns rights taken away

from them. This is an indictment on you, not me.

I'm not the one making the positive claim, you are." There are a couple other

things that I wanted to mention in the debate that I obviously never got to,

which,

uh, another thing is something called a double

bind in debate terms.

It's essentially like a damned if you agree, damned if you disagree.

So the question that I wanted to pose him was, would taking away

guns from individuals reduce the amount of shootings?

And if he agrees, then obviously the conclusion you have to

come to is we have to

take guns away from everyone, and if he disagrees, then he proves that

he's essentially doing this just for spite,

not actually for any tangible results.

I was obviously prepared for him asking, "What is a woman?" because that's

something he often did when the conversation

was about trans individuals.

I wanted to flip it back on him and ask him, "What

is a woman?" because he doesn't

really give a coherent definition.

What they sort of always say is, uh, a human adult female,

but they don't really

clarify what female means, and there's a number of different ways you

can define

it. I wanted to point to a number of

different, uh, intersex conditions to

ask him if that qualifies you as a man or a woman.

I had a number of different examples, like, written on my phone

that we obviously

never got to. I don't know what his response

was gonna be, but I've seen Steven

Crowder give the argument that it's very similar to

saying that humans have ten, uh, fingers,

and if they don't have ten fingers, it doesn't mean that they're not human.

It's actually a pretty good argument.

He's saying that we can talk about the clear examples without talking about the

muddied examples. But then I would counter back and say,

"Okay, great,

then I'll just define woman as someone with two XX chromosomes,

and then just like

you would say someone with 5ARD disease would be a woman,

I would say someone who's

a trans woman is a woman, even though they don't have two XX

chromosomes." And

obviously, I didn't know where the conversation

was gonna go after that, but that's

what I had prepared and that's what I was, um,

I was hoping to debate him on. If you wanna see more stuff of what I'm

doing, I'm

actually driving down to Arizona right now.

Uh, I'm gonna be doing, uh, a debate in two days against Kai

Schwemmer. Um, I'm excited to do a lot, a lot more of these debates

because, uh, I've missed it over the last three months.

If you wanna get tickets, they're in my Linktree.

If you wanna donate to the organization, the Unfuck America Tour, where essentially

we do a bunch of debates like this, uh, the link is in the Linktree as well.

Thanks for watching.