The show, my name is Bymos, it's bymos, social media and there's this internet craze, it's a social media platform, it goes by the name Tiktok, I'm not on it, but today I made my first Tiktok, I think we're going to be showing it towards the end of the show and I have more Tiktokers in the building, Flora and Ivy. Thank you for having us. Thank you for coming through too. Hi. Alright, so they've never met before by the way, they're meeting here for the first time, courtesy of not me, it's the show, why in the morning, Kariburi Sanaman. So who's going to introduce themselves first? Take it, take it over here. My name is Flora Frisghi, I'm a Tiktoker and content creator on Instagram. Tiktoker, content creator on Instagram and you're a fine artist as well. Yes, I am. You'll be telling us more about that. Hi, I'm Vivian Yanzigu, Ivy had designed Instagram and Tiktok, I am a Tiktoker. Alright, Kariburi Sana and I'm so impressed so far with what Tiktok can do. When did you first join the platform? I joined Tiktok last year, mid last year. Alright, what did you join it for? What was your push to join Tiktok? I would say I love imitating. You love imitating? Yes. So this was sent from heaven for you? Yes. Alright, what was your drive to join Tiktok? Basically I'm into acting and I just wanted a platform where I can decide what to put out without having a director or a scriptwriter behind me. So you're the director, you're the actor, you're the scriptwriter, everything you want. Yes. And Tiktok was heaven sent for you. Yes. Wow. So what's your handle on Tiktok first before we carry on so they can find you? I know people are downloading the app right now, this is Tiktok guys need to pay us. We were downloading the app so much so you can share your handle with them so they can find you as we proceed. My handle is at Ivy Hadidza on Tiktok and at Ivy Hadidza on Instagram. Alright. Mine is at flora underscore alia on both Tiktok and Instagram. Nice one. Yes.  No, I'm not. You're not a blogger? No. Alright, on your Instagram it's written a personal blog, the bio so I assume, I'm sorry for assuming it.  Yeah, yeah, yeah.  What type of content do you involve yourself with? Basically just comedy really, just feel good comedy. Alright, what other forms of comedy have you tried before if you have? I do not consider myself a comedian. So I'm just a creator, that's it. That's it. Yeah. Alright, but when you make me love you? I don't think I could carry that tag. It's such a big tag. It's such a big tag. So content creator is good enough for me. It's more like it. Yes. For you. Alright, fine art. Yes. I'm an abstract painter, yeah, so that is actually my main life and also content creating is also part of me. Okay, so, Kunawatu, I lay abstract painting. Oh, abstract painting is. I see. I see. Being a fine artist basically is, they're artists, it's in the field of painting. So they are painters who can do all kinds of, they can do sculpting, they can do portrait and all that. I'm not like based in one kind of category of art, which is maybe portrait painting or pencil work, diverse. You're diverse. Yes, that's it. Alright. But abstract painting is one of them. Yes, abstract, because I don't do more faces, it's quite. You express your feelings on it. Maybe shapes or, you know, different things. Like Picasso. Yes. I try. That's a way, way, way better. Alright, that's it. So when it comes to social media, we can't talk about social media without talking about likes and comments. What is the obsession with likes and comments? And does it exist in TikTok first? Do you have likes and comments on TikTok? Yeah, we do. Alright. What is the obsession with it? Well, when you have more likes and, when you have more likes and more views, I mean, that means your work has been liked and it's been done. Means you're doing something right? Yes, something right. On the flip side, you don't get likes and comments. What happens? Do you get depressed? Personally? Yeah. No. Alright, do you take the video down? No.  It's about me. No. That's my ethic. That's your ethic right there. What about you? No, she's right actually. You do the content for yourself. When you're doing something because you actually wanted, that's when it's actually going to get more views and more likes or more attention. But when you do it... Just talk to my steady like this, like none of that. So yeah, when you're doing something just because you're not hoping someone else will see it, it actually gets to be seen by someone you get. But then there are times actually, I don't know if you've gotten it, I got it. And when you post something, you're hoping like, I hope this person will see it. And then no one... Target audience. Yes, exactly. And no one sees it.  So you go through those things sometimes. Yeah, you do. Because you expect your work to be hard every day to be noticed. And sometimes you don't get to that point and then you're like, oh goodness, where am I getting with this, you know? All right. So it gets to that point, but then you have to go to your, you know, zero point and say, this is not why the reason I started this, yeah. So the reason you do it, you should do it for yourself first, before you do it for the people. You should do it because you love it. Yes, yes, true. That is the advice you'd give the people who are watching us right now and they get frustrated when, okay, so being ladies. This is... It's going to be controversial. All right. When you post something with some, a little bit of nudity or something, let me say sexy for lack of better words, do you get more traction than when you post something with just content, straight content? Does it happen to you? Personally, I don't get that a lot because I role play most of the time. As a guy. So I think that that tension is diverted more to the message than what I look like. So you found a way to come there, yeah? Yeah. All right. Was that part of the plan? No, really. I just, I just like it. You just like it? Yeah. I like that. You were thinking so hard. No, no, no. Just tell us what you were thinking about.  So yeah, it happens. But then that's not the reason I do that. That is not the reason you do that. So some people get their attention on the wrong things. Yes, yes. Oh, sometimes the right thing, but the wrong place. Yes, yes, true. I feel that. This thing about cyberbullying, it never existed when I was in primary school. Bullying was physical. Nightingale School and Cyberbullying. And have you guys gone through it? Not as such. I haven't really. But then sometimes on TikTok. Yeah, I haven't got nasty comments on. I have. Kiddogo, because some people think I'm Somali. So they think why you're not wearing your hijab or something.  Is that racism? No, no, no.  Oh, maybe. No, I'm just saying, I'm just saying.  Minim kenya lisi, by the way. It's an example. All right. So you get that? Yeah, just sometimes. But that is on TikTok, not on Instagram or anything. When you say the Rwandese or Nigerian, I felt exactly how you felt when they do that. So I get the feeling. Thank you for making me feel the ego. All right. So as we proceed, TikTok has given you guys opportunity. You role play, sometimes you can be a man if you want.  You can be a watermelon. You can be a watermelon. There's a watermelon filter. Yes. I love watermelon. Oh. Yes, and chicken. All right. You can be a DJ on TikTok. You can be anything on TikTok. You can be a TV host on TikTok. All right. When I look at other social media handles, when they started, like Twitter, when Twitter started, we never imagined Twitter would be a protest platform. People protest on Twitter now. We have seen revolutions on Twitter. When Facebook started, we never imagined it could be a news channel. We get our news on Facebook now. What do you think TikTok is going to morph into in the future, apart from just role playing and these things? What are some of the new trends that we are going to see on TikTok? From where you sit? Personally, I think that TikTok is going to be the next big thing when it comes to marketing for both artists and for companies. It's a great, great, great platform. Everyone else is flooding to the radio station, everyone else is going to TV, everyone else is going to Instagram. No one is looking at TikTok. It's going to be the next big thing. That is where you insert that meme. TikTok is the future. TikTok. TikTok is the future. What about you? What do you... Yeah, like she said, it's actually true. TikTok is going to be the next big thing, especially in marketing and everything. Like Ed Sheeran right now is trying to market his song through TikTok and there are companies right now who are trying also to use TikTokers to market that stuff because people are tired of seeing someone just coming and talking or this brand or this, this, this. But with TikTok, there's a track that you're playing with and showing, if it's a brand, you're showing something that you're advertising with the music. It was designed to capture my attention. Exactly. It captures attention and someone's creativity. With that, now you're advertising whatever brand or whatever company you're doing, you're dealing with at that moment. Wonderful. Wonderful insight right there, but this is that time that we bring social media to the television, so we are going to be watching the TikTok videos.


So, my name is Crystal Van Hoof and I'm the Assistant Director of the C I H R Institute of Gender and Health. I'd just like to get us all on the same page about what is sex, what is gender, why does it matter to health research generally, why might it matter to the research that you're doing. I'll highlight some of the latest evidence, might not be the latest, but maybe for me at least the most interesting, and give some examples of how SGA, which is sex and gender-based analysis, could actually open doors for you in your research and in your career. So, first I just want to do a quick check-in. We did send out the modules, I believe, the Institute of Gender and Health training modules, online modules to everyone before, and I see a show of hands who had a chance to complete module one, anybody have a chance to do module two, and module three, cool. I actually thought there'd be more for module three, I think that you guys might actually find module three really interesting, so if you have time and people did module one, you might actually want to go and check out module three, because it's a, it's an analysis of data for human circumstances, so it's kind of cool. So this is the modules, you want to go back, discoversexandgender.ca, where you can find them, so now I'm going to test your knowledge, so hopefully you remembered what you, what you did, hopefully everyone completed it successfully and got their certificates. So true or false, the term sex and gender, me and the same thing, can be used interchangeably in health research, two things that that is true. Excellent. False. False. Sex refers to biological differences between males and females, genes, sex, hormones, physiology, immune response, et cetera, et cetera.  So the bottom line is that every cell has a sex and every person is gender, which is a really good way of remembering it and another really important thing, is mice do not have genders, rats don't either, no animals have genders, please stop, just stop, stop, stop, okay, so just very quickly to show you how complex gender is and why likely mice don't have them is its roles, its identities, its relational, and its institutionalized, so this is all about things that are within society, within your culture, they change across cultures, they change across society, across time, geography, anything that you can think of, these things are interchangeable and they move their intergenerational, right, so you need to have some sort of intergenerational history and memory for these things to exist, for gender to exist, so again, why no mice, no gender, okay, so I want you, if you do any kind of research or will ever in your life do any kind of research involving animals raise your right hand, okay, now repeat after me, I solemnly swear, keep your right hand up, I solemnly swear, on the scientific method, that I will never again refer to the gender of animals until mice can speak, and they tell me otherwise, thank you, I will be watching, stop it. Okay, true or false, if the data set includes the sex, male, female, of human participants, but no direct gender measure, you can probably still analyze gender, who thinks that's true? Who thinks it's false? A lot of undecided in the room. True. So if you had done the third module, you would know that using the correct techniques, researchers will often be able to identify gender story, or construct a gender variable using secondary data, what does that mean? It could mean a lot of different things, these are just a few examples, primary finger status, personal income, hours of housework, you're giving responsibilities. That might sound really stereotyped, because it is, because gender is stereotyped. So if you were to look at these things, and then you were to apply them to your participants, using sex as a dependent variable, what might you find you might find that these things end up more likely with biological males or biological females, and there, boom, you have gender, right? Yeah.  Yeah. Yeah, because that's what gender is, right? Is is the expectations of you, because of your biological sex? That's usually what gender if we're talking about gender norms and roles? Yes. And what about the gender diverse? I think that's the main issue here. Yes. So when I'm talking about relational gender or gender norms or gender roles, that's what I'm sort of talking about here, personal gender identity is different, and that you can basically get from a survey question. So that's a lot easier to get at. You ask people what is your felt gender, and then you provide a list of responses and usually an open question box, right? So that's probably the easiest aspect of gender to measure. The other things are a lot more difficult because they change based on the culture and the system and the time, right? Does that make sense? Maybe, maybe not. Okay, we can talk later. Okay. So second check in.  Who thinks gender is relevant to the research? Who thinks both? Who thinks neither? We'll talk later. I'm working with gender. Sex still might be relevant. Depending on the photo. Okay, I have a friend who does cancer research and endogenous worms, so it's not always relevant. For sure. Okay, true or false.  True. False. So false. Cell based studies may or not reported, which we generally know. Animal based studies, 75% are done in male animals. Human trials, 67% men. More women actually use healthcare for them because post market females have two times the risk to develop adverse drug reactions. Correlation on causation, I don't know. But can you genuinely say that there's no effect 100%? I would say not. I would argue you can't actually say for sure. So probably better to check and probably better to have some sort of, you know, sex based analysis and what you're doing. So true or false. Female animals are intrinsically more variable than males do their ester cycle, making them generally less suitable for baseline study models. Who thinks this is true? Who thinks it's false? Okay. False. Two recent meta analysis found for most applications. Female mice and rats are no more variable than males. This is key. No more variable than males. Males also have hormones. Let's not forget. Okay. What made us think that males are the standard and females are the deviation? Where did that come from? males have hormones. Are you controlling for the testosterone variability in the males? Because I'll tell you what, metabolism hormone morphology purple is males. You know, maybe we need to think about that. Yes, most applications, most applications. Okay, I'm not saying all. Always. Okay. Intrinsically more variable than males due to their ester cycle. So this is this is what I'm saying is like generally use a lot of those general type words because obviously it's never going to be always true or always false. But I don't think that an argument can be made that in the majority, and let's say like animal studies 75% are all male. Do we believe that that is the percentage that it should be? Probably not. I can tell you, there's been a lot of research done on this, a lot of analysis done on this and definitely not. Definitely not. We know that there's huge differences in pain research, for instance, in preclinical pain research, and yet at least 70% of pain research in animal models is done in males only. There's no good reason for it other than that's the way that it's always been done. What? First, the first part is just to see the safety first, to do a lot of clinical trial and just for safety, nothing going to be affected. So I should be happy because they're only killing the males. I get it. Be nice to the girls. I'm actually vegetarian. I'd like to leave all the mice alone, but whatever. So if you were to consider even if females were more variable, would you justify their exclusion from preclinical research? Hints? No, because the bottom line is that people are not just males plus messy variables. And that seems to be the reason that we're giving for not including them. So you can tell me that females are more variable all you want, but more variable than what? Then males, they're different. It's not just males plus weird variables plus weird hormones. No, males have hormones too. When you cage them together, you can actually get more variability in the testosterone in a day in the males than you get in the females over their whole ester cycle, right? So it's just different variability. It's not more or less than one another. You know, it's a bit of a paradigm shift, I think. True false. While diet can differ by gender, dietary effects on the gut microbiome are not mediated by sex. Who thinks this is true? Who thinks this is false? False. Men and women exhibit sex specific responses to the exact same diet and have distinct microbiome patterns populating the gut semi-obstress, ovarian hormone, sexism with brain processes, but all potentially play a role here. So those are just a few examples. And now I want to tell you what could you maybe get out of this? So this is sort of like the carrots, let's say. So there's some breakthroughs, there's potential breakthroughs. You know, if you look, you've got the data anyway, maybe look, see if there's a difference. Maybe you'll find something, maybe you'll have a breakthrough. A lot of the best sex differences researchers that I know found things accidentally that really shot their careers forward. There's funding available and quite a bit of it, and more and more as the as the goal long into the future. And it can help you to get ahead of the curve because there are rules coming that you may have to adhere to at some point. Breakthrough. So a microbiome example, this isn't super recent, I think is 2013. This is from Jane Danz's lab at sick kids found male to female only microbiome transfer protects against type one diabetes and autoimmunity and found that testosterone is a key mediator of the microbiome transfer effects. And there's an so there's an indication that microbiome alterations can cause and not really a consequence of autoimmune disease. And so what could this actually mean down the line in humans? Well, you know that there's evidence already of intestinal dysbiosis in human autoimmune patients. So there's a microbiome autoimmune interaction. And then sex hormones may also modulate sexual demorphism in human autoimmune diseases is something else we know from the research. So that's a sex hormone autoimmune interactions, you've got sort of both of these things happening that we know about already, which are supported by the the most model that she was using. So email to male bias of rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis declines of age, along with testosterone decline. Is this a coincidence? I don't know. Maybe someone should look into it. So a gender example, and I think this this is an interesting one. It's not to do with the microbiome necessarily, but I think it's interesting to think about how we sometimes see differences between males and females and assume that it's sex. When in fact it could be gender, it could be psychosocial. Right. So this is the example of acute coronary syndrome. This is from Louise Peeleclaw at McGill. And she was asking a question is sex or gender more predictive of acute coronary syndrome. And the question that I ask is, are you sure? Because someone's like I said, you might see a sex difference and assume that it's biological. So she developed a composite gender score. And so this is taking a lot of different things that are generally associated with gender roles, gender behaviors, applied it, created a variable, applied it to her participants specifically. So these were individuals who had had a heart attack, had been hospitalized and were under 55, 18 to 55. So this is applied directly to her cohort. And this is what she got. Men tended to be more towards what was determined to be the masculine characteristics and women were more spread out. Masculine again here, like I was saying before, was defined as the characteristics that were more often found with the biological males and feminine were the characteristics that were more often found with the biological females. So it's only within this cohort. So in that way, it's a little bit more objective than a lot of other gender scores that were sort of created in the 1970s and are still being applied today, right? So once she applied this and looked at the differences where previously she had thought that women were more likely, biological females, were more likely to have a second heart attack within a year of the first. She actually found that higher feminine gender score independent of biological sex was associated with higher rates of recurrent acute coronary syndrome. So if you scored higher on the gender score towards feminine, whether you were biologically male or biologically female, you were more likely to have a second heart attack within a year of your first heart attack. So that's interesting. Something to think about. So here's the carrots.  It's a bit weird. It's fringe, not serious. My supervisor told me to ignore that data. My supervisor told me not to put it on my poster. I hear that a lot actually. Oh, I found something really interesting, but it didn't match the male, so I just left it out. So you might also think even if I were interested, there can't be much funding for sex and gender science or to look into these differences. Is it really worth my time and effort? So I started to think about this and I, a couple weeks ago, when a research net looked at all of the funding opportunities that were at the time two weeks ago currently open for applications that have some sort of component where you need to integrate sex and or gender or have a sex and gender champion on the team or some of them you actually have to complete one of our modules. So there you go. For those of you who have done it, you've already done it. If you want to apply to one of those. And these are all of the ones that were just at that time up on the website. And then this is the amount of money that was associated with each of them. Which in the end, if you ask, is it really worth your time and effort? Well, it's eighty seven point five million dollars worth your time. I would say probably maybe. I don't think that any one of those is like particular. Some of them were a bit smaller, but they're a good size grant. So, you know, and they can add up, of course. So if you didn't see anything there in the list, here's a little carrot for you. Coming soon, sex is a biological variable catalyst grant to. So this is the second round of the grant that we already did two years ago now. And so in the round one, we were able to fund 18 grants and around to we're funding up to 23. And we have a number of different institutes who are partners on this spring. So that's coming soon. I can't tell you one. I can't not really like to tell you much about this, but there you go. Keep an eye out for it. Sign up for newsletters from the institutes and you'll hear all about these things. So how might you say ahead of the curve and the curve in some ways is what I would refer to rather than the carrots as the sticks. So there's funding policies that are coming or already here and they're publishing rules that are happening that are changing. So these are just a few different funding organizations that currently have funding policies related to sex and gender. The National Institutes of Health in 2016 instituted the sex as a biological variable policy, which means that in studies with vertebrate animals, you either need to include sex as a biological variable or provide a very good reason why they're not. And like I said, there are good reasons, but there are fewer and further between than we often tend to think. Our Institute obviously has ongoing requirements and whenever we partner with other institutes, those requirements are applied in different ways. There's the CIHR application questions, which you have ever applied for CIHR funding that you know about. You've seen sort of the box. Did you consider sex? Did you consider gender? Why or why not? There's training for reviewers at CIHR that's being rolled out, was developed in 2016, being rolled out right now. And there's a CIHR SGDA action plan, which was asked for by the Standing Committee on Ethics, and that's in its develop and it's currently being implemented. So what does that actually mean? This is the box. How many of you have seen the box, the sex and gender box on CIHR applications? So this is with every single CIHR application you need to check yes or no, and you need to fill out this box. Now for those of you who've filled it out, have you ever received comments about it from a reviewer? Raise your hand if you have. Nobody. So part of the SGDA action plan is actually to move the contents of this box into the methods section of the paper to train reviewers on how to review the content and to make a requirement that reviewers must comment. So you may want to start thinking a little bit harder about what you put in this box in the future. Publishing guidelines, these are the sex and gender equity in research guidelines that came out of the European Association of Science Editors. They are trying to have journals internationally take up these guidelines. They're pretty basic.  It's the basics of it. There's more use gender, apply gender when it's relevant, but a lot of it has to do with sex. This pillar one or biomedical scientists tend to do what we call the bad kids. Most other pillars they tend to think of these things a little bit more, but it takes some convincing. So this is one way that publishing editors are looking to do some convincing with a, as I would call it, a stick. So the Canadian Journal of Public Health applied these guidelines last year. The Journal of Neuroscience Research applied something similar to the Sager guidelines, essentially the Sager guidelines about saying so, and so they established a policy applying all authors to ensure proper consideration of sex as a biological variable, and they have guidelines for their reviewers to determine whether or not it's relevant and to what extent it's been applied in an appropriate manner. So in some, SGBA can support your discoveries, your funding, your publishing, and the bottom line is that neglecting sex and gender in research, when it's appropriate, tend to scientific rigor and reproducibility. And so true or false, you can make a difference in ensuring microbiome research is rigorous and generalizable and that emerging therapies have the potential to benefit all people. True! Yes. So where could you start, compare males and females in your research, whatever it is that you're saying, just come to it, have a look, see if you find something. Just see. You know, second step is to document, analyze, and report the results and the outcomes by sex. If you don't know where to report these, if you're not sure if your usual journals will accept the data, biology of sex differences is a great journal that you can check out. They have some really interesting stuff. They've got great stuff on the microbiome, data from humans, record and pay attention to sex differences, and then if you find them, consider if they might be gender-related. And that is more or less relevant depending on the type of research that you're doing obviously. So third check in.  Anybody? Okay, tell us why. Ah, soil microbiome. You're good. Anybody else that's not working with soil or endogenous worms? Food. Food. Food, so the actual bacteria on the food. Yeah. Okay. Anybody with less good reasons? Soil microbiome. Okay, no more soil. Anything having to do that could eventually potentially translate into humans and you think that sex or gender is not relevant? Okay, thank you. Okay, so I was going to say one on that. I was going to make other people tell you why that's wrong. Okay, so if you would like to learn more, you can take another one of our courses. You can learn more about us on our website. You can subscribe to our newsletter and if you're all about finding opportunities from across the IHR because we tend to invest across the institutes. You can subscribe and you can join the conversation. There's some really interesting stuff if you check out Twitter. If you look up the hashtag sexandscience or SABV for sex as a biological variable. And you can of course feel free to contact me if you have any follow-up questions or anything like that. And that's from me. Thanks.


Every item that's published in the country every day, whatever you can think of, we get it through the door. Scale of the material that comes through is quite staggering. It's not until I started working at the British Library that I realised just how many things are published in the country. People think of a library as being a very small room with a few readers in there. This is more of an industrial scale process. We have a stamping machine, which gives a registration mark, an ownership mark for every liquid-positive item. I take a selection of books from the trolley. I take it back to my desk. I look at the information the book has to give. When all that information has been inputted on the database, I save the record. I then create an order for the book and print a receipt. The catalogue is two parts. They're making a physical description of the item in hand, bringing out all the characteristics of the item to make it look unique. But also then, we're looking for attributes that make it like other things. There's judgement all the time. We check all the information is correct and add the relevant shelf mark to the item. Once we've assigned the shelf mark, we can print that out from the system and then place it on the open cage to go to the shopping area. I'm one of the Paula Messenger team at St Pancras responsible for getting the books to the reading rooms and down to the basements from the link lorry that comes down every day of the week. I've delivered it to the section office where the staff who are responsible for placing the books on the shelf will empty the cages, place it on the shelf and make it available for the readers. We are working basement four. It's a very nice atmosphere. Our colleagues, they're always nice, ready to help each other, picking up ideas from each other and just get the work done. There's always a challenge for new books coming in because we have to make space ready for the new acquisition coming in. I'm a library assistant at the British Library where I retrieve books and also replace them at the end of the working day. It's important because it actually holds a lot of knowledge here for researchers and for the general public. We collect one copy of every book published in the UK and it's saved there for public posterity. The library is incredibly important to the nation. It's got an immense amount of knowledge in it and not just the items it holds but also the knowledge of the people that work here.


It is illegal for me to tell you that my boys are male. I'm talking to my judge right now, Judge Mary Brown, Dallas County. I'm not going to follow your gag order. I'm never going to follow your unconstitutional legal gag order. If you believe that gag order is constitutional and moral, you're obligated to give me the maximum criminal sentence under criminal contempt that you can give me, and I will issue a writ of habeas corpus and we'll go to the Supreme Court of Texas and we'll see who's right. That's the fifth time I've told you. I am not following unconstitutional laws, mandates or orders ever again and don't you do it either. You're conditioning the matriarchy to push you around. Don't do it. I'm going to say whatever I want. Whenever I want, however I want, and I have a right to do it and I have a duty to do it for my sons and I'm going to continue to do it. I'm not one of these guys that's going to opine much about what the supreme virtues are, but I thought this was pretty good. You stand to lose everything, but you still do the right thing. So I've taken $1.2 million, took my retirement. That's what it's taken for me to defend my boy. Now they're trying to take my boy's genitals and eventually kill him. And if they think for one second that I'm not going to keep swinging and punching and kicking, they've got another thing coming. I ain't stopping for nothing.  I'm not stopping. If I'm going down, I'm going down swinging. Let's talk about how this happened. Let's go back a little bit. And I think this is really instructive in how our society is abusing the trust that men place in their families and the false views that many men have about the laws surrounding families. These are my boys. This is my son James. You know, we go to church and he noticed I wear a suit when we go to church and this is me fitting him for his first church suit. That's them. They just programmed their first electric circuit, a voice activated circuit that could turn a light on and off. You can see that Jude's very happy. Jude is very, very good at logic and thinking things through. He was very proud of that. That's James when he goes rabbit hunting. He heard all these stories in my family about me when I was a kid. I went out with a patchy throwing stick up by Lubbock and I used to hunt jack rabbits all the time, bring a couple home for the pot. So he wanted to do that. So I got him a hunting boomerang from Australia and that's him back from the creek after he got a couple rabbits. So this is what happened to him. This is him at four years old. That's the website of his mom. She's a pediatrician in Capell, Texas. I name names. Her name is Ann Georgilis. She is a pediatrician in Capell, Texas. She had my son on her website to help advertise her business. All the while she was complaining that I was posting pictures of him on the internet. So I pointed this out in court that not only is she posting on the internet, but she's posting him as a boy when it raises money for her, when it's commercial. She didn't even believe that he was a girl. The next day, that's how she put him on the website in a pink dress with a bow in his hair. And it just really happened that fast. Do you know the court did absolutely nothing about this? So at the time we had a court order which prohibited either one of us from presenting the boy in a way that he wasn't known to third party. So if somebody knew him as a girl, I had to present him as a girl. So here she is, she's presenting him as a boy and then she presents him as a girl, no consequences. That's him at one of his appointments at a pediatrician named Dr. Jennifer Poppe in Flower Mountain, Texas. That is the pediatrician that diagnosed this boy with gender dysphoria. So how can you be gender dysphoric if you only present as a girl with your mom but with everybody else you present as a boy? How can that be gender dysphoric? Gender dysphoria requires consistency in the presentation. So that was just nutty. But that's him in a dress, a sundress, no doubt. That's me picking him up. So she used to do this stuff to provoke me. She wanted me to be violent. So this is me picking my boy up. Comes out like this, she makes it seem like for him it's like some big game. But I think Jude's face pretty much says it all. And it tells you what Jude thinks about all this. We'll get to that a little later.  She now dresses him up like a drag queen. Everywhere he goes, he goes to school like this. She's given him a fake name, Luna. The schools, despite the fact that I've told the schools they don't have my consent to do this, have changed his name. And they've done this all against my will and I've been fighting the schools ever since. I'm headed toward a federal lawsuit with them and it cost me a lot more money. But that's how he is known in his school. All without my consent. So I'm going to ask you, if you can't stop this as a father in Texas, do your children really belong to you? Under the law? Are they really yours under the law? We're going to get to that question too. The court actually ordered that my son be socially transitioned to a girl. It's the first time in Texas that's ever happened. I was enjoined from cutting my son's hair because Dr. Ann Georgilus said she wanted to grow it out long like a girl's. So the court enjoined me from doing that, but they never stopped her from transitioning my son. Think about that for a minute. I'm going to ask you again, under the law are your children yours? This is Judge Mary Brown. This is my judge. This is the law that issues illegal orders and allows my son to be transitioned against my will and without a verdict from a jury. You can go out and see on YouTube hearings. People have recorded hearings. I've seen them on YouTube. I don't know the people that have recorded them, but they've recorded hearings and you can see her in action. And it's not much better than that picture. What times do we live in when this is happening to kids? When fathers can't stop it.  What is it about this time that lets that happen? It's shameful. And that's why I say shame on this age. Shame on this age. Shame on its principles. The people know what is going on. Fathers know this is happening in courts. Judges know. Judges in Texas that don't want this to happen. Judges on the Supreme Court. Officials that sit on the Judicial Conduct Commission know this is going on.  Long ago we should have told them. No.  We should have done this a long, long time ago and we did it. And it's almost too late. I get asked all the time. I was just asked at lunch. Do people really believe this crazy stuff? Do they really believe that a boy's a girl?


To view last Thursday, make sure you reach out to our social media handle that is at Y254 channel on YouTube and catch up with what Barry had to say and discuss pertaining music with the one and only K-Force. But today on studio the only, the only six chord I resonate with it's an instrument. It has to do with an instrument. But today I am surprised that there is a nut is known as six chord by you be telling us how he came up with that name all the way from Kiambu County. These are the dumbbells. Six chord. Yes. Bless up. Use camera four, introduce yourself and tell us where you come from. First of all, thank you for having me. I go by the name of six, six major. I'm telling you so my people, we've made it. Yeah, I'm telling you now. Mama, you made it. Tell mama that you made it. You'll be telling us why you feel like you cannot, why mom is not like, I want to know if mom really supports right now because when you start off, you told me something about lack of support when starting off. Tell us where the musical journey all started. Where did the love for rap come from? Well, I grew up in a family of people who love the music. So constantly I could listen to a lot of Tupac, a lot of BIG, a lot of Rackham, the old guys because of the sibling influence that I had when I was growing up. So I actually started out as a poet. Started out as a poet. Yes. That's very unique, but it's not surprising because STL also started off as a poet and she's talking about fusing poetry and rap to come up with, you know, good music. Yeah. My type of poetry though was more the Ryan type of poetry where you have a lot of words put together that actually sound the same. It didn't make sense particularly at that time, but on doing it, repeating,