Even San Francisco Hit The Wall | When Ideology Meets Reality |Tranny Tuesday

Tonight on Common Sense with Chad Law:

A women’s museum bill collapsed in Congress because lawmakers refused to define women.

Texas Children’s Hospital is opening America’s first detransition clinic after lawsuits and mounting controversy.

And in San Francisco, a YMCA had to post locker room rules reminding members that:
“Nudity should be discreet, limited, and brief.”

This episode explores:

• ideological overreach
• institutional fear
• detransition lawsuits
• the Cass Review
• women’s spaces
• and why reality eventually forces correction

PLUS:

• one of the funniest locker room discussions we’ve ever done on this show
• “Hank, put on a towel”
• and why the people closest to the consequences are abandoning the ideology first

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CALL/TEXT:
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00:00 Cold Open
01:49 The Cleanup Phase Has Begun
07:18 The Women’s Museum That Couldn’t Define Women
24:46 Texas Children’s Hospital Settlement
48:11 Even San Francisco Hit The Wall
1:11:28 Compassion vs Compelled Participation
1:20:33 Reagan Reminder
1:26:10 Final Closing

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Transcript

Chad Law: Folks, you know an ideology is hitting a wall when even San Francisco starts installing guardrails tonight. A museum dedicated to American women that the United States Congress could not pass because Democrats refused to specify that the museum be about women. A children's hospital in Texas, same hospital that ran the largest pediatric gender clinic in the country, quietly opening a new clinic to undo what the first clinic did. A YMCA in San Francisco changing locker room rules after a sixteen-year-old girl walked in and saw what she saw. Lawsuits, settlements, whistleblowers, detransitioners, public polling collapsing in real time. 65% of Americans, 66% on sports, 56% on medical stuff. Every number, every month moving in one direction. Hospitals retreating, insurancers rewriting policies, women, and let me be clear, normal women, suburban women, gym women, Costco women, not activist women, finally saying, enough. The cleanup phase ⁓ has officially begun, ladies and And I'm Chad Law, America's binary brother, the common sense extremist living in radical reality. The only man in modern media brave enough to define a woman without hiring a consultant, convening a focus group, or running it past 32-person Slack channel called Inclusive Language Working Group Phase 4. And this is common sense. The last show on television where the definition of woman Is not subject to revision based on quarterly earnings. Here's the deal, guys. Tonight is not a ha ha ha, look at the liberals show. I know, I'm as disappointed as you are. We love those, bread and butter, but that show would not do justice to what is actually happening in this country right now. Because what is happening is much more interesting. For the last 10, 12, 15 years, depending where you start the clock, this country has been running a massive ideological experiment around sex, gender, identity, and biology. And during those years, the people closest to the institutional power, the journalists, the universities, the medical associations, the federal agencies, the corporate HR departments, the Smithsonian, the AMA, the APA, all of them refused to ask basic questions. Basic questions about medicine, basic questions about sports, basic questions about privacy, basic questions about children. And the people who did ask those questions got smeared, fired, deplatformed, called every name on the book. Here's what I want you to understand tonight. Washington is the last place this cleanup is happening. Washington is still right now in the year 2026 still fighting about whether a museum about women should be about women. The cleanup is happening in the places where the consequences live. Hospitals, because hospitals have lawyers. Insurance companies, because they have actuaries, schools, because they have parents, gyms, because they have customers, and women's locker rooms because women's locker rooms have women. Turns out that one's important. So here's tonight's thesis. Write it down, tattoo it, put it on a coffee mug. The people closest to the consequences are abandoning the ideology first. The faculty lounge can debate this forever, the op-ed page can debate this forever, Congress can debate this until the sun explodes. But eventually, every ideology meets a locker room, a lawsuit, or a biology textbook. And tonight. We're gonna meet all three. Let's start in Washington. All right, story one. This one comes to us from the United States House of Representatives last Thursday, May twenty-first. And credit where credit's due. There was solid reporting on this. The Washington Post had a piece on it. NBC Washington covered it. Roll call did a tight rundown. NOTIS a newer outfit, broke down how the amendment torpedoed the bipartisan support. This is not a Fox News exclusive. This is not a conspiracy. This is just what happened. House Bill 1329, sponsored by Nicole Malatakis out of New York. The purpose of this bill, and I want you to hear this, the purpose of this bill is to authorize construction of the Smithsonian Americans Women's History Museum on the National Mall. Okay? The Smithsonian American Women's History Museum on the National Mall. That's it. That's the bill. Build a museum about women on the mall. That's all it is. This is the most uncontroversial concept in American political life. Originally introduced with get this, over 230 co-sponsors, both parties. The Democratic Women's Caucus championed it. Everybody said yes. We will build a museum about American women. A no brainer. And then the Republicans added an amendment. The amendment said the museum may not identify, present, describe, or otherwise depict any biological male as female. That's the amendment. Read it again in your head. I'll wait. The amendment was written by Republican Mary Miller of Illinois. It says in plain English, the museum is about women, has to be about women. That's the entire amendment. There's no other clause. Doesn't say women have to wear a certain outfit, doesn't say they have to have certain political views. It says if this museum is about American women, then it has to be about, you know, the species of human being currently referred to In every medical textbook on earth as female. And the bill failed. 204 to 216. Every Democrat voted no. Six Republicans voted no. The Museum honoring the women of the United States of America did not pass the House of Representatives. Just so crazy. Guys, guys, the United States Congress. The body that voted to go to war in Iraq, the body that passes 4,000 page omnibus spending bills at three in the morning that nobody has read, the body that just last year named a post office after a guy from a sitcom, cannot pass a bill to build a museum about women because they refuse to specify that the museum should be about women. Guys, this is not parody. This is not Saturday satire. you can pull up the roll call vote on congress.gov right now. This is where we are. Now, let me steel man the other side. I want to be fair. The Democrats and the 19th News, which is a feminist outlet, ran a piece on this. ⁓ Democrats said things. ⁓ One, and is fair. The amendment also gave the president the power to override the Smithsonian site selection. Okay, legitimate concern. You don't want one guy moving the museum around like a chess piece, fine. But two, and here's where it gets interesting. They said the biological women language was an attack on transgender women. And, quote from the Democratic Women's Caucus, that the amendment invites arbitrary enforcement and could be used to challenge the inclusion of any woman or girl a politician deems not feminine enough. What? That's the most fascinating sentence in the entire congressional record this year. Because what the Democratic Women's Caucus is saying out loud in writing on the record is we can't define woman biologically, because then we won't know who counts. ⁓ That is the argument. If you define woman as adult human female, which is, just so we're clear, the definition that has existed in every dictionary, every encyclopedia, every medical journal, and every culture on earth for the entire history of human writing, the Democratic Women's Caucus is worried it'll be too narrow. The Democratic Women's Caucus, think about the ideological pretzel you have to twist yourself in to arrive here. You have to argue that defining woman biologically would hurt women? You have to argue that the word that has organized half of human civilization for 10,000 years is in 2026 suddenly too vague to use as an organizing principle for a museum about it? A women's museum that can't define women. It's like opening a dog museum where cats are optional. The label on the building is now controversial. That's where we are. Man. And you know what's actually insane about this, folks? The whole point of identifying as a transgender woman is that the category woman means something. Just think about this for one second. If the category was infinitely flexible, included anyone who claimed it, had no content at all, there would be no point in identifying with it, right? You don't fight to be admitted into a club that has no admission criteria. You fight to be admitted into a club that means something. So the activists need the category to mean something at the cultural level and to mean nothing at the definitional level. That's the trick. Trans women are women is a strong assertion, clear category. What is a woman? Circle the wagons, refuse to answer, hire a consultant. Both have to be true at the same time. The category has to be real enough to want to be in, and vaporous enough to never be defined. We used to have a country where you could disagree about a lot: policy, taxes, war, basically everything, and still agree on what the words meant. That country is sort of leaving us. Now, this is the part I want you to remember when someone tells you this is a fringe issue. It is no longer a fringe issue. According to Pew Research, February 2025, 5,000 American adults. 66% of Americans say trans athletes should compete on teams matching their sex assigned at birth. 66. Two thirds of the country, folks. Same Pew survey. 56% say healthcare professionals should be banned from ⁓ care to minors. Majority of the entire country. Another Pew survey? 65% of American voters say sex at birth determines whether someone is male or female. That number was 53% in 2017, up 12 points. Republicans, 91%. Democrats went from 30 to 39. Even Democrats are moving on this. MPR, PBS, Marist, different outfit, different methodology. 61% of Americans say defining gender by sex on the original birth certificate is the only way to do it. And here, here's the one that should set off smoke alarms in every Democrat war room. Pew, January 2025, surveying teens. Teens. 69% of American teenagers say gender is determined by sex at birth. 69% of teens. The kids the activists were supposed to be locking in for the next generation are more skeptical than their parents. The youth. The supposed army of the future has reom. that in the political analyst business is a five-alarm dumpster fire. Now take this away from segment one. Washington, and I mean the activist class, the staffer class, the consultant class, the people whose entire livelihood depends on this stuff continuing. Washington is the last place on earth where this ideology still rules. ⁓ Out in the country, at gyms, at schools, at hospitals, at PTA meetings, at swim clubs, at YMCAs, Americans are quietly walking away, 65% of them. Two-thirds on sports, a majority on medical stuff, even the teenagers. But inside the beltway, this is still a non-negotiable plank of the coalition, which is why a women's museum bill, the most uncontroversial cultural product in modern history, can fail on the House floor. Because Democrats can't bring themselves to put the word biological in front of the word woman. The faculty lounge is still in charge for now. But the faculty lounge doesn't have a billing department. Because here's what happens when ideology leaves the faculty lounge and walks into a building with billing codes, ⁓ and lawyers and parents and children. Hmm, different story. That's where it gets real, ladies and gentlemen. Let me tell you about a hospital in Houston, Texas. Just last week, the Texas Attorney General's office announces a settlement. The reporting on this, credit where it's due. Routers had it first, Daniel Weissner with the Routers Legal Desk. It was a great piece. You can find it at Reuters.com. AP picked it up, NBC News had it, Houston Public Media did some of the strongest local reporting I've seen. The settlement is between the state of Texas, the U.S. Department of Justice, and Texas Children's Hospital. For those of you who don't know, Texas Children's Hospital is not a small player. This is the largest children's hospital in the United States of America. A thousand beds in Houston, Texas. World-renowned institution. People fly from around the world for pediatric care there. Here are the terms of the settlement. Number one, Texas Children pays the state of Texas $10 million. Two, they fire five physicians who perform gender transition procedures on minors permanently. The hospital must terminate their privilege and may never re-credential them ever. Three, the hospital amends its own bylaws to automatically revoke privileges from any future doctor who violates Texas's ban on transitioning for minors. Now that is a settlement for the people. And the last one, number four, and this is the one. Just lock into it. Texas Children's Hospital agrees to establish. The first detransition clinic in the United States of America. Free care for five years to patients who were, quoting the AG's release, subjected to gender transition procedures. Sit with that one for a second. The largest children's hospital in America is opening a department to undo what one of its own departments did. How is that not on every newspaper, every channel? There's a phrase in medicine, and I'm not a doctor, just a guy who reads. There's a phrase called settled science. When someone on cable news tells you the science is settled, when someone in a white coat shows up to a Senate hearing and says the medical consensus is unanimous, that's the phrase. For about a decade, that's the phrase that's been thrown at anyone. And I mean anyone, including respected pediatricians, including detransitioners themselves, anyone who raised questions about giving puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and double massectomies to teenagers. The science is settled. The medical consensus is unanimous. The American Academy of Pediatrics agrees. The Endocrine Society agrees, the Pediatric Endocrine Society agrees, shut up. Nothing says settled science like opening an entire department to reverse it. This is not a research paper raising questions. This is not a hearing. This is not a podcast. This is a 1,000-bed children's hospital in a settlement with the Department of Justice and a State Attorney General opening a clinic at the hospital's own expense, by the way, to provide reversal care free of charge to its own former patients. This feels less like a medical breakthrough and more like a product recall. You don't open a returns department for medicine unless something has gone catastrophically institutionally wrong. And look, I want to be careful here, because the people at the center of this story, the actual patients, are not a punchline to me. They are not a punchline on this show. They never will be. The detransitioners I want to talk about for a second, which I talked about a couple weeks ago, are some of the most courageous people in American public life right now. Think about what they're doing. These are young people, many of them women, many of them in ear their early twenties. Who 13, 14, 15 years old, were told by adults in white coats that they had been born in the wrong body, that medical intervention was the only answer, that puberty was a problem to be paused, that their breasts were optional, that the suffering they felt, and a lot of these kids were suffering: autism spectrum issues, eating disorders, anxiety, depression, trauma, every kid is different. The suffering was a symptom of being trans, and the cure. Was hormones and surgery. And now, five, six, seven years later, they're saying, wait, that wasn't right. I had other things going on. Nobody asked me the right questions, nobody screened me properly. The therapist I saw for 45 minutes signed off on a treatment plan that has permanently altered my body, my voice, my fertility, my ability to nurse my own children. And they're saying it out loud. Chloe Cole, Kayla Lovedoll, Prisha Mosley, Kat Cattison. Real names, real people, real lawsuits. You can look them up. They've testified before state legislators. They've gone on the record. They've sued their providers. Some, like the case the New York Post reported on May 21st, have already won settlements. These are not political activists. These are kids who were failed by an institution and who have decided at enormous personal cost to tell the truth about what happened to them. They deserve our respect, and most importantly, they deserve to be heard. Now, the analytical question. Why is Texas children settling? Why now? Why this language? Because here's something the activist class doesn't want you to understand. Texas children didn't have a moral conversion, didn't read a study, didn't have a town hall, and decide, you know what, the kids were right, we got this wrong. Texas children settled because of liability. There's a phrase in corporate medicine. Risk adjusted exposure. It means how much do we stand to lose if this goes to trial? How many plaintiffs are out there? How many how big is the discovery process? How many internal emails are going to come out? How many whistleblowers are inside the building right now? How many patients' records sitting in storage are going to become exhibit A under deposition? The answer at Texas Children's clearly was too much. Pay 10 million. Fire five doctors opened the clinic, settled because the alternative was worse. That's what institutional retreat looks like. It doesn't look like an apology. It doesn't look like a press conference. It looks like a settlement on a Friday afternoon with carefully chosen language and a hospital spokesperson saying, and this is the real quote, that the clinic will formalize the supportive multidisciplinary services we already deliver. That's corporate speak for. Please stop asking us questions. We know we screwed up. We already deliver. Sure, sure you do. You just decided to formalize it after $10 million and firing five doctors and a state investigation and a DOJ probe. What a coincidence. You know what's really wild about this, folks? The United States is the last. We are not the first country to wake up on this. We are the last. We are bringing up the rear of the entire developed world. The United Kingdom shut down the Tavistock Clinic. The Tavistock Clinic was the largest pediatric gender clinic in the National Health Service. Shut it down. Commissioned a four-year independent review by Dr. Hillary Cass, the Cass Review. She's a pediatrician respected across the political spectrum, no axe to grind. And the CAS review, when it came out, was devastating. Found the evidence base for puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and minors was, in her own words, remarkably weak. NHS has dramatically restricted access, moved away from the affirmation-only model. ⁓ Sweden, restricted in 2022. Karolinska Institute, one of the most prestigious medical institutions in the world. This is where they award Nobel Prize in Medicine. Karolinska led the way, said the evidence does not support it. Finland, restricted in 2020, one of the first. Norway, Official Health Agency 2023, called the evidence base low quality. Denmark, restricted. France, Official Medical Academy issued a warning. The Netherlands, and this is the kicker, the Netherlands invented the protocol. It was called the Dutch protocol. That's where this whole thing started in the 90s. And in 2024, even Dutch researchers started pumping the brakes on their own model. Every European country with a serious public health system, everyone has moved away from the model. The American Academy of Pediatrics is still defending. We are the last. The country with the most lawyers, the most insurance companies, the most for-profit medicine, the most political polarization is the last country to face what every other developed nation has already faced. And the cleanup is happening one settlement at a time. No, crazy. As Americans, we pride ourselves on being scientific. Think about we have Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Mayo Clinic, the best research, the most advanced medicine, the most rigorous institutions. And on this one issue, this one specific issue, we were lapped by the Finns. The Finns! A country with the population of Minnesota figured out this before we did. Granted, they have a much higher IQ than most Minnesotans, but I digress. That should be a national embarrassment. That should be a Senate hearing. That should be something the Pulitzer Committee is currently feeling very awkward about given the journalism that didn't get done over the last decade. But it isn't. It isn't a national embarrassment. It isn't a Senate hearing. The mainstream press still, still today in 2026, covers detransitionals as a marginal phenomenon. The New York Times still calls the cast review controversial. The American Academy of Pediatrics still hasn't issued a meaningful correction. The cleanup is happening, but it's happening quietly in settlements and policy rewrites, in subtle changes to insurance billing codes, in hospitals formalizing services they already provide. Never an apology, never a press conference, never an admission. Just escape hatches. So Washington, still fighting language wars, still can't define a woman for a woman's museum. Hospitals quietly retreating, quietly settling, quietly opening reversal clinics, quietly firing doctors, quietly amending bylaws, quietly acknowledging without ever saying the words, that something went catastrophically wrong. Two completely different American experiences. The Beltway is still arguing about the museum. Houston just paid 10 million dollars. That gap. That gap is the story. The further you are from the consequences, the more ideological you can afford to be. That's DC, that's the hill, that's the Capitol. Congress has no consequences. Congress can vote no on a women's museum and go home for the weekend. Nothing bad happens to them. They don't lose their jobs. They don't lose their health care. They don't lose their fertility. Their voices don't change. Their bodies are unaffected. Their daughters are not in the locker room. Period. But Texas Children's? Texas Children's has malpractice insurance. And malpractice insurance doesn't care about your pronouns. And there's one more story, one more. And honestly, it brings this whole thing home in a way I wasn't expecting until I read it this morning. Because if a museum can fall over language and a hospital can fall over liability, the third place ideology always loses is physical space. The room where the body actually lives. San Francisco Credit up front, UK Daily Mail had this first. The New York Post picked it up on May 25th. Pink News covered it, which surprised me. Fair to Pink News. They reported it straight. Here's the situation. The Stonestown family, YMCA, San Francisco, California. If I had to draw you a map of places where the cultural pendulum has swung the furthest in one direction, Stonestown YMCA is on the list. The YMCA in the city that as we speak has city ordinances about which kind of fork you're allowed to use at takeout. The most progressive YMCA in the most progressive city in the most progressive state in the Union. This YMCA, for the last two years, has had a member. A member who goes by the name Sammy. Sammy is a transgender woman. Sammy is biologically male. Sammy uses the woman's locker room, and Sammy, according to two years of complaints from members, including a fifty nine year old woman named Susan Pete, who spoke to the Daily Mail. Sammy has been using that locker room in ways that the other members found alarming. Specifically, Sammy was lingering naked for long periods, blow drying his hair, bending over in the mirror in a women's locker room. That, by the way, Also serves teenage girls and children using the pool. Progressives are so funny. It's always fine until it shows up at their doorstep. For two years, members complained. Members wrote a letter. A 17-year-old girl filed a complaint, and the YMCA for two years said in incense: California law, gender, identity, nothing we can do. Have a nice day. Bye. Then last week, Stonestown family YMCA posted new rules. There's a flyer in the locker room with a title, and I read it directly off the photograph. New YMCA Locker Room Guidelines 2026. I want you to read the rules. Rule number one: picture this on a posted flyer in 2026 in a San Francisco gym written by a board of directors. Nudity should be discreet, limited, and brief. Discreet, limited, and brief. San Francisco in 2026 just got forced to write a sentence the Greek civilization figured out 3,000 years ago. Nudity should be discrete, limited, and brief. That's not a YMCA rule. That's the founding construction of human civilization. We collectively agreed, sometime around the invention of the loincloth, that nudity should be discrete, limited, and brief. San Francisco had to print it on paper and tape it to a wall because apparently nobody could remember. At least Sammy couldn't. It gets better. Rule two nudity is permitted only while actively showering. Only while actively showering. They had to be specific that the showering must be active, because apparently passive showering, naked standing in the locker room contemplating the human condition, was previously permitted and now is not. Rule three members are expected to put clothing on or be covered during use of the space outside of showering. Wow. The YMCA has discovered clothing! The garment, the fabric, the technology that's been around for 40,000 years. Stonestown Family YMCA, May 2026, issued a policy update announcing to his members that they should be wearing clothes in a building in a city in America. ⁓ by the way, where you're interacting with strangers, including children. This is real. You can see the photograph in the Daily Mail. This was an official policy update. You know what we just witnessed? San Francisco got so progressive that they accidentally reinvented basic manners. The city that brought you the unisex bathroom executive order has now had to formally rediscover the concept of putting on pants when you're not in the shower. And listen, these are not anti-trans rules. Pink News pointed this out, and they're correct. The rules don't mention transgender people at all. The rules just say be discreet, be brief, wear clothes when you're not actively soaping up. These are not anti-trans rules. These are anti-freak rules. This is the YMCA quietly admitting in writing on official letterhead that they spent two years asking the wrong question. They spent two years asking, how do we accommodate Sammy? The answer eventually, how do we get the locker room to look like the way it did in 1984? Congratulations, San Fran. You have just rediscovered basic locker room etiquette that the rest of humanity solved sometime around 1954. Welcome back. Now, I gotta be honest with you about something, because this is the part where this conversation actually broadens into something bigger than trans versus not trans. Personally, I don't like unnecessary nudity of any kind anywhere. Not a fan. I did not grow up in a naked household. My family was a shut the door, get dressed in your room, not roam the hallway in your underpants household. Funny enough, I had a friend in college whose family, and I love them, lovely people. We're essentially a nudist family. Hot tub on the day deck, naked in it constantly. I went to visit. One time, left two days early. I respect their lifestyle. I admire their confidence. I am not built for it. I'm a clothes guy, always been a clothes guy. I will die a clothes guy. The Lord made me with a body that goes under fabric, obviously. I think we should keep it that way. Here's the thing: the trans locker room debate is a subset of a much larger debate I would love to have with this country, which is: can we please rediscover basic boundaries on nudity in general? I'm gonna get in trouble with some of the boomer men in the audience for this. But even before the trans stuff, the locker room culture in this country was a little nuts. Was it not? You ever walk into a gym locker room, any gym, any city, any decade, and there is an 84-year-old man standing. Just standing in the middle of the locker room. Naked. Dozens of them. Not changing, not toweling off, just standing. Like a Roman statue, hands on his hips, eye contact, as if to say, Welcome to the why. We're naked here. And then they always, with me, I'm such a freak magnet, try to start a conversation with you. Wants to know how the Bengals are gonna do this season. He's naked, one foot up on the bench, fully exposed in three directions in the sauna simultaneously, and he wants your opinion on the O-lines. It's like, sir, put it away. I don't want to see your balls hitting your kneecaps. I'm not equipped to discuss football right now. I cannot make eye contact. You're asking me to make. They always want to make eye contact while they're totally naked. Hello? Thinking to myself, you are in crisis down there. There are anatomical considerations the laws of physics no longer apply to. I'm trying, I'm trying. But I cannot in good conscience pretend that you and I are having a normal interaction. Put on a towel, Hank. Jesus. That's been my position my whole life. Hank? Put on a towel. And by the way, the women are nodding right now because the women's locker room have their own version, I've been told. The 45-minute hairdryer woman, the lady doing yoga stretches and the buff. The woman applying lotion to every square inch of her body while making phone calls. Phone calls. True story. My friend Lauren goes to a gym. She's a real estate agent, normal lady. Lauren said there is a fully nude woman, no towel, no robe, no nothing, holding a cell phone to her ear, conducting a real estate negotiation about a condo in Phoenix, totally nude, with a full 70s bush. The buyer, on the other hand, has no idea. The buyer thinks she's in an office. The buyer thinks she's being professionally engaging. They're not. There is a naked woman on the other end of this call, and the closing is set for the 18th. We have a public nudity problem in this country, and it predates the trans debate. Sorry. The trans debate just brought it to a head. The Stonestown YMCA was always headed for those rules. Always, eventually, at some point, even in the most progressive YMCA in America, someone was going to write a sentence that said, and I quote, members are expected to put clothing on or be covered during use of the space outside of showering. And that sentence, that sentence right there is not a transgender policy. That sentence is just society. That sentence is the agreement humans make to live near each other. That sentence is the entire social contract in 14 words that somehow we keep forgetting to enforce. But here's where the comedy ends and the serious part starts. Let's not pretend this rule was not written for Hank. This rule was written for Sammy. And the result is that the women at Stonestown, the women who complained, the 17-year-old who walked into that locker room, 59-year-old Susan Pete, who told the Daily Mail her concerns. Those women are now living under rules that police them. Read it out loud. Nudity is permitted only while actively showering. Members are expected to put clothes on or be covered during the use of the space outside of showering. That rule falls on the women. The women now have to change quickly. The women now have to be covered at all times. The women now have to manage their behavior in their own locker room, in their own private space, a space designated for them by definition, because the institution would not, could not address the actual problem. The actual problem was not nudity in general. The actual problem was SAMI. And the institution under California law could not address SAMI. So the institution addressed the women. There's a writer named Jennifer Say. She ran Levi's, she ran ⁓ women's gymnastics activism. No fan of mine politically, by the way, but she nailed this one. She tweeted. Women complained about a naked man in their locker room. The YMCA responded by policing women. That is what happened. The women said, this is uncomfortable. The institution said, please be quieter while being uncomfortable. That is, once you see it. The pattern for about a decade now. Women who raised concerns about female sports punished. Women who raised concerns about female prisons punished. Women who raised concerns about female locker rooms punished. J.K. Rowling, the most successful female author in human history, punished. Riley Gaines, an NCAA swimmer with the second fastest time of her bracket, harassed, threatened, locked in a room at San Francisco State for her safety. Women were told by other women, by men, by HR departments, by university administrators, by elite cultural institutions, that their discomfort was bigotry. That trusting their own eyes was hate. That objecting to the conditions in their own locker room was violence. And eventually they got tired of it. I would too. That's what happened at Stonestown. That's what the polling shows. That's what the lawsuits at Texas Children show. That's what the failed vote in Congress shows. It's not conservatives. It's not Trump. It's not Tucker Carlson. It's normal women, like my sister or my mom, quietly coming back to themselves. And I could not be prouder. And let me say something, and I want to say this very carefully about the people on the other side of this. Because this show has never been and is not going to start being a show that mocks trans people. I'm not interested in that. That's not what we do here. I mock idiots, but the two aren't mutually exclusive. Transgender adults have been around as long as I've been alive. Christine Jorgensen, Renee Richards, Caitlin Jenner. There are people who have lived this way quiet quietly, privately, with dignity for a long time, and the country accommodated them. The country was generous. The country mostly left them alone. This is not about them. This is about an institutional ideology that demanded at every level in every space that the rest of America not just accommodate, but participate. There's a difference. There's a huge difference between that. Compassion and compelled participation are not the same thing. I can respect you, I can leave you alone, I can wish you well, I can support your right to exist, your right to dignity, your right to be free from violence, your right to live the life that you want. I just don't have to surrender biology to do it. I don't have to surrender language to do it. I don't have to surrender my daughter's locker room to do it. I don't have to surrender the definition of woman to do it. I don't have to surrender medical ethics, scientific consensus, women's sports, women's prisons, women's museums to do it. I can be kind and also true. Those are not opposed, contrary to popular belief. The activist movement of the last 10 years told us they were opposed. The activist movement told us that compassion required participation. That respect required surrender, that kindness required lying. That was the lie. That was always the lie. And the country, slowly, quietly, in courtrooms and hospital boardrooms and YMCAs and PTA meetings, the country has started to find its voice again. Thank God. So here's what I want to leave you with tonight, ladies and gentlemen. This episode was about something much bigger than the trans debate. This episode was about what happens to a country when its institutions become afraid to say obvious things. That's the actual story. That's what tied these three stories together tonight. A museum that couldn't define its own subject. A hospital that couldn't admit its own mistakes, a YMCA that couldn't manage its own locker room. Three institutions, three failures, one root cause. Fear. Fear of activists, fear of HR complaints, fear of social media, fear of being called a name, fear of losing a federal grant, fear of being on the wrong side of Politico's story, fear of being the first person at the meeting to say, wait, can we back up for a sec? And what we've learned over the last decade is that fear applied across an entire institutional class becomes culture. Fear becomes policy, fear becomes guidance, fear becomes best practices. Fear becomes the CAS review being called controversial. Fear becomes the Tavistock staying open for a decade longer than it should have. Fear becomes a thousand-bed children's hospital giving puberty blockers to kids with autism spectrum issues. Fear becomes a women's museum bill failing on the floor of the house. ⁓ Fear becomes a girl walking into a YMCA locker room and her institution telling her, her discomfort is the problem. That is what we lived through. And it didn't break because conservatives won. Let me be clear. It didn't break because Republicans took the House. It didn't break because Trump won an election. It didn't break because of any politician. It broke because reality is patient. Reality does not need to win arguments. Reality does not need an op-ed page. Reality doesn't need a hashtag. Reality certainly doesn't need a Senate majority. Reality just waits. Reality waits for the malpractice suit. Reality waits for the detransitioner with documentation. Reality waits for the polling to shift. Reality waits for the 17-year-old. Reality waits for the mom at the YMCA. Reality waits for the Finnish researcher. Reality waits for the cast review. Reality waits for Susan Pete from San Francisco to be quoted in the Daily Mail. And eventually, reality remains undefeated. And it has started to collect interest. I want to leave you with a Reagan moment tonight because I think it fits this one perfectly. Now, you've all heard the Reagan's greatest hits. Tear down the wall. Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem. Are you better off than you were four years ago? You've heard them all. They're on coffee mugs. I'm not giving you coffee mug, Reagan. I never do. I want to give you a Reagan moment almost nobody talks about, because I think it's the most honest thing he ever did at a podium. Republican National Convention in New Orleans. Reagan's farewell address to the party, he's giving the keynote. End of his presidency. He's quoting John Adams. John Adams' famous line from the Boston Massacre trial in 1770. Facts are stubborn things. That was the quote. Facts are stubborn things. Reagan's at the podium, huge crowd, national TV, and he leans into the microphone and says, quote, facts are stupid things. He missed it. He blew the line on national television in front of the entire Republican Party. Facts are stupid things. Here's what I love. Here's the moment. He catches himself, he pauses, he looks up, he smirks, and he says, verbatim. Facts are stupid things, stubborn things, and I should say. And the crowd laughs, and Reagan laughs, and the moment becomes one of the most human seconds in modern political history. He made a mistake and he fixed it. But reality corrected him in real time in front of the cameras. He said the wrong thing, he noticed, he fixed it, he laughed at himself and he moved on. That's leadership. That's grown-up behavior. That's a man saying, I just collided with reality. I'm gonna acknowledge it, I'm gonna fix it, and we're gonna keep going. The institutions we covered tonight have not done that. They have not said, We have said the wrong thing, here's the correction. They've not laughed at themselves. They have not paused, looked up, and said stubborn things, I should say, instead. They have settled lawsuits at midnight, opened detransition clinics behind closed doors, posted flyers in a San Francisco YMCA, hoping nobody notices. But the correction is happening anyways, because facts are stubborn things. Even when our institutions wish they were stupid things. This is the part where I ask you sincerely to help us. We do not have a corporate parent. We don't have Comcast tucked behind us. We don't have a deal with NBC Universal or Disney or anybody else writing us checks. We have you. If this show meant something to you tonight, if you laughed, if you learned something, if you felt heard for the first time on this topic in a decade, do me a favor. Hit the rumble button, subscribe, it's free. Share the show, send it to your group chat, send it to Carl. Carl from the pre-show. Carl needs this. Send it to your sister. Send it to the woman in your office who has been whispering about this for three years and didn't realize there was a place she could listen to it out loud. Don't forget, we're on X, we're on Instagram, subscribe to the Substack. That's where long form stuff goes, where I can really cook. If you want to call in or text 252 Chad Law, leave a voicemail. We play them, I read them, real voices, real Americans, real common sense. And remember, the only rule of this whole operation. Is simple. If you see us, please share us. That's how we win. That's how we beat the algorithm. That's how we keep common sense pumping through the American household. I'm gonna leave you with this. For 10 years, this country was told the kindest thing it could do was to stop trusting its own eyes. For 10 years, this country was told that the most compassionate thing it could do was to lie. For 10 years, this country was told that to disagree was to hate. And tonight, the museum, the hospital, the YMCA, tonight is the night the lie started to crack. Not because anyone won an election, not because anyone won an argument, not because the right people finally got to power. No. Because the people closest to the consequences ran out of road. The hospitals ran out of legal defense. The activists ran out of credibility. The institutions ran out of language. And the women, the normal, unfamous, unfunded, untweeting women of the United States of America, ran out of patience. Be kind to your neighbors, be honest about reality, and do not, under any circumstances, surrender language to people who refuse to define their own terms. Reality waited a long time on this one, guys. And it's collecting interest. I'm Chad Law. And America? That was common sense. If you're on Rumble, stick around. In about 10 seconds, we're gonna reset the studio and open up the live post-show QA. We'll be right back.