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Sara Higdon: Trans, Catholic, Veteran, Libertarian

KEY MOMENTS

0:00 – Intro: Sarah Higdon of Human Events and The Post Millennial
1:03 – Controversy over a trans writer at Human Events
2:04 – Why getting canceled grows your following
3:10 – Libby Emmons, theater, and the Liberty movement
4:11 – How Sarah got into politics
5:15 – Anti-war rallies and Ron Paul being right
7:21 – What transitioning actually involves
8:24 – Living with no secrets
9:27 – Hormones, working out, and mood
11:33 – Social constructs and outward gender expression
12:38 – Old writing and a changed outlook
14:49 – An hour of anxiety a day
15:54 – Diet, exercise, and getting off medication
16:55 – LSD psychotherapy and psychedelics
17:59 – Service dogs and mental health
20:03 – Fallon Fox and men fighting women
22:12 – Why the physical advantages don't go away
23:13 – Title IX and scholarships for female athletes
25:25 – I Am Jazz and medical transition for kids
26:27 – The sunk cost fallacy of transitioning
27:32 – Oppressor status and upper-middle-class kids
28:36 – Knowing at age four
30:39 – Lifelong side effects for children
32:49 – The Dutch protocol and kids who grow out of it
34:58 – Catholic rules and doing what you want
36:03 – Misgendering a murderer
38:08 – Trans women in women's prisons
40:21 – Describing the ideology
41:25 – Do your kids belong to the state?
43:35 – Hunter Biden and nepotism
45:41 – Joe Biden and the 1994 crime bill
47:48 – The oldest president and wrap-up

ABOUT THIS EPISODE

Sara Higdon (trans, Catholic, veteran, minarchist/voluntaryist, and writer for Human Events and The Post Millennial) joins Lou to talk about the controversy over a trans writer in conservative outlets, coming to libertarianism through Ron Paul and the anti-war movement, her own transition, and men in women's sports.

We also get into why getting canceled grows your following, what transitioning actually involves, hormones and mood, an hour of anxiety a day, psychedelics and service dogs, Fallon Fox, Title IX, I Am Jazz and medical transition for kids, the Dutch protocol, misgendering a murderer, trans women in women's prisons, whether your kids belong to the state, Hunter Biden, and Joe Biden's 1994 crime bill.

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