“You’re NOT A WOMAN Just Because You Got Surgery!” Macy Gray on Transgender Identity 

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Bunch of bigots n fascists

Ilsa Schader I am. I have no friends because of it, and half of my family doesn’t speak to me, but I am.

@@dewilew2137 No FREINDS because of it. Same here. But I will always speak truth and fact in the face of losing friends.

@@dewilew2137 That's very sad. To be shunned for a difference of opinion. I have to constantly remind myself I shouldn't be angry with those who act this way. I should remember to reserve my anger for those who programmed them to act this way.

Spot on. ❤️🙏❤️

Crazy isn't it??

What's hilarious is that the woke Left's definition of a woman changes depending on the topic. If the topic is athletics, a trans woman is 100% a woman. If the topic is abortion then a woman goes back to being defined by their vagina and reproductive organs. According to the woke Left's definition of a woman, don't men also have a say in abortion since men can get pregnant too?

It is amazing to me that we are living though a time that there is an element of our society that does not respect the sacrifices that many of our countrymen have made. GOOD BLESS AMERICA!! Respect our flag! Everyone loves each other and respect everyone.

The battle has to be fought again, and it must be women who fight it.

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Absolutely 😁

VERY TRUE, and well said.

1000 thumbs up to you!

You hit the nail right on the fricken head with this comment 😊

Me too. I don't even agree with half of what she says but she's so sweet I'm happy to listen. I would be interested in a body language expert explaining how she does that.

She has a soulful singing voice too.

@@chesterdonnelly1212 You don't agree with what a woman is? You don't think our country is behind? You don't think we need to update our laws or expire very outdated laws.

@@christineperez7562 no I don't agree the American flag should have different colour stars. The flag is fine as it is.

that’s not quirky that’s tweaker

You think that being a trans woman is glamorous? They are very vulnerable to hate crimes and many of them face discrimination, being disowned by their families/friends, have a hard time finding romantic partners, and general disrespect from the world. As someone that is close to multiple trans people I know that it is not a choice for them and it is so much deeper than the clothes and makeup.

@@Kace_Darbouze-Omolade your point ? Using your comparative….White people can have hard lives too it doesnt make them understand the complexities of race as it applies to black people Just because you transition doesnt mean you have experienced the nuances of being biologically female which is Macys point Oranges to apples

@@Kace_Darbouze-Omolade I'm pretty sure every group has had to experience hate, ridicule, and dismissal from others due to what they look like, or where they come from, or a variety of different things about themselves that they cannot and should not change. It happens to EVERY group, that doesn't give one group the right to take another group's identity and then dismiss their feelings and rights!

@@Kace_Darbouze-Omolade You sort of proved my point!!! Little girls have very different problems than hate crimes or being disowned for being girls, or hard time finding romantic partners for being a bio female. In fact, I work in a field dominated by women, so I can't even remember ever being discriminated against for gender. I'm not saying it's all about clothing or makeup because I've never had to worry about being confused for male no matter how plainly dressed I was. There was disrespect for other reasons sometimes. The transexuals people's problems you mentioned come when they decide to become trans. Our problems/experiences are different and start at birth. That's why they will NEVER know what it really is to be female. Anyway, that's my opinion. Everyone is entitled to their own. But just because someone tells you how much emotional pain or things they dealt with are, or how they were treated, does not make what they say correct.

@@cu5864 Right!!! You said it more briefly than I could.

E talked about his interviewing techniques with Jordon Peterson...

Can't be the 1st time they have met. They were comfortable with each other

She has no choice to. Only certain people can get angry.

@@christineperez7562 what ?

Yes it’s very childlike

And that’s the way it should be, speaking from the heart. We cannot agree on everything but that doesn’t make you my enemy.

She speaks from a place of ignorance.

She’s always been based. She’s never really given a f**k

Nope...she's a real women....that means no balls 🙂

F3males get way more chances than men STOP IT

Dave got em

@@JoshTheTechnoShaman But a man talking about a transexual "Male" is not talking about women he's talking about men cutting off their cucumbers. 🤣

yeah but unfortunately she got so much backlsash that she retracted her statement

Yet she managed to sound so profoundly ignorant.

She is predagist

I agree and she said what needed to be said

Authentic, honest, and humble, she’s beautiful.

@@JohnCarterIsMyName Did she lie about something? What has she ignored?

Courage? She's ignorant at best.

How is transgenderism not cultural appropriation? I remember when you couldn't cook a taco without being accused of cultural appropriation. Now all these males want to become women. I say hell no. You don't get hormones and have a penectomy and get to say you are a woman. Actually what you are is a man who had some medical procedures.

@@ninibugg6203 you can identify as whatever you want but when your choices start to have real life consequences like crushing biological womens skulls or breaking record after record in whatever competition, you'll be reminded of your biology. Stop watering down what it means to be a woman. The damn line should be drawn somewhere. There was a coach, i think they did some sort of track. The coach was telling the trans woman to fucking SLOW down. You can't deny science and reality while claiming you're on the side of science(not you specifically).

@@ninibugg6203 blue isn't male pink isn't female. Sensitivity isn't female. Toughness isn't male. Those are lies you have to believe to hold the ideological belief that gender is a social construct. Let's discard those falsehoods instead of doing the mental gymnastics you've just displayed. It's much simpler and beneficial to all. A woman or man can have any personality type, clothing style, and career but the one thing they can't to is change their gender.

So true.

@@ninibugg6203 my mother never forced me to play with dolls or wear pink. I did those things but I also played Nintendo and played with GI Joe's and Star Wars figures and climbed trees and got dirty. Being a girl doesn't boil down to those things. If you are not a woman then I can see how you might not understand, but if you are I am flabbergasted that you think that is all we are! We are the life givers of the world. And now people are trying to belittle us and make us less. WE ARE WOMAN! That is powerful! All of us women should protest this bs before they take the word MOTHER from the dictionary and all birth certificates. It should NOT be allowed to happen.

She wants to "reboot" the Constitution because "it's a new day". What is refreshing about that?

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No, she got that right from birth.

And is not her truth, is the truth

"her truth" = lies.

The truth.

childlike ? Anyone can see this is an intelligent grown woman ,not what you described as a lesser human being

The truth is trans people are real. We have been around forever and we're not going anywhere either. Get the fuck over it.

Do you want to get in a time machine and go back in time with Macy Gray? That is what she is intimating. If you do, then "Good Luck." You want Civil Rights for yourself but don't give a damn about others. Sad commentary. You may get what you want.

@@jessmorgan7738 I didn't have a problem with anything she said. Please do us all a huge favor and point out what she said specifically that could be an infringement on anyone's civil rights.

@@jessmorgan7738 Not agreeing with a false statement on sex is infringing on others civil rights? Explain?

Watching Macy on stage is heartwarming the way she reaches out to people and she has had it tough.

You probably grew up listening to her music so it's nostalgia. I wasn't a huge R & B fan when I was a child but I remember seeing her on the first spiderman film in 2002 so seeing her always reminds me of my childhood.

Exactly I wish more people did this

It’s making a comeback. I am speaking it into existence.

lmao so brave A MAN WHO SOUNDS LIKE A BABY lmao bravery

Come on now you know they all go back on tv and apologize cowering out.

@@DmanDice when trans women feel the need to put their hands on people for being offended you would backtrack as well if you weren’t walking around with guards 24/7

Same. I wanna hug her.

It’s not a debate though 🤔

a lot

"Not a fan of her music, but now that I know she's a transphobe...."

bro, give "i try" a try, and you would be a fan of her music

You took the words out of my mouth!!

I second that

as a man, I question how "woman" someone could be if they've NEVER had to even contemplate having to deal with a period every month....THAT is PART of being a woman, for better or worse....

Exactly! I knew a person who transitioned. I knew them as male and eventually as female. When I simple brought up biological truths when the Lia Thomas thing came up I was automatically labeled as transphobic and all of the biological facts I stated were deemed to be bigoted. I do t care what ppl do with there own lives as long as it isn’t imposing on others and there is no denying the fact that trans women who go through male puberty have a biological advantage. I’m tired of ppl wanting us to believe the lies

PREACH!!!

Yes you are transphobic. The definition of transphobic is doing anything that makes any trans person upset. So basically if you believe in reality and have basic common sense you're transphobic. At this point I'm just owning it because I don't care about what people say anymore.

Unfortunately she backtracked on the Today Show. Who knows how she was threatened.

Liberal Tears fuel my happiness now

@@kaecake9575 totally agree with you.

@@RS54321 and this is the problem, I believe in letting people live how they want but they don’t believe you should live how you want!! getting so sick of this nonsense live your life just don’t force it down my throat!!, the sad part if she back tracked her statement it will never be enough 😵‍💫

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*hug*

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Agree

Hug hug hug ☺️☺️

Very refreshing 😌

they mostly agreed tho ...

No you said it

Piers has to have a different opinion though otherwise his show is cancelled 😅

You consider this an adult "conversation? You must have very low standards ...or don''t know what ''adult" is, which is more likely.

Exactly!!

Just over looking the part where trans women have similar brain chemistry or structure as cis women. That is the reason for the disphoria They don't just think or feel like a woman They have identical brain activity as a typical woman.

Total 1000 percent agree!

It's both, plus mental. We are different than men biologically, emotionally, and mentally. A surgeon can't change that

As I just said to another privileged woman. All trans women want is a better life and TO NOT GET MURDERED (which is happening at an alarming rate). Nothing is being taken from you. Classifying trans women as "women" or "real women" will not harm you at all, but it has the capacity to help them from being murdered. So, it is your choice . . . murder or let them live? I say that if allowing trans women to be classified as women helps save one life, then let it be. Why are you seeing this as such a threat to your life? You are not in danger like trans women are. You clearly are looking at this from some bias, and that is what is most alarming. If I were the parent of a trans child, I would not allow you to babysit my child.

Ok, but people do transition. When they do this, some look virtually indistinguishable from people born from the biological female sex. This means that they are treated by society as women. Due to this, do they not have a similar experience?

@@harigoodman7718 You made a really good point. People act like bleeding once a month or being able to get pregnant are the only real experiences there are for women to have.

@Princess The original poster said that transgender women cannot identify with the “experience” of women. I was making the point that fully transitioned trans women have much of the same experience as cisgender women as they are treated very similarly by society. This means I disagree with the idea that trans women don’t live as women or have a similar experience.

@Princess I’m not talking about transition either. I’m saying how transgender women present after transition is very similar to cisgender women. This results in them having similar and therefore shared experiences which many would consider a part of womanhood. I understand that the experiences of menstruation especially are quite large parts of being women. However, many women do not get periods (some never start a period). But, they are still women aren’t they? So surely living as a woman in society (dealing with how others treat you, gender roles and stereotypes) is a more significant part of being a woman as it is something that all women experience and throughout all stages of their life? The fact that they can’t have kids doesn’t mean anything. Quite a lot of women are infertile due to conditions such as PCOS. They’re still women. Even women who can conceive, they may have different goals and objectives in life and may not want to have kids. A trans woman can still adopt, have a surrogate, have a child biologically if they are a gay couple (using sperm banks before transitioning). There are plenty of ways a trans women can still be a mother.

@@harigoodman7718 no they don’t. Being born something genetically just hits different.

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No one is "pushing" children to transition. Parents don't want their child to transition, but they don't want them to be suicidal or alcoholic either. We can guide and influence a person. Doctors trained in gender dysphoria are qualified to decide when transitioning will help a child. The parents must also give consent. If a misdiagnosed child starts to transition then stops, they generally have very little change to overcome. If a child cannot transition until adulthood they are forced to endure the wrong hormones for years. It's the same as telling a misdiagnosed child then can't stop taking the wrong hormones until they're adults. It's torture beyond imagining. Let's not forget many children are GREATFUL for their time as the opposite sex. THERE IS NO PERFECT SOLUTION. Yes! Exactly true! So choose the path with the most success. That's what doctors continue to do. The regret rate for children transitioning on hormones (age 16+) is around 2%. For some 2% is too much; yet they don't seem to realize that the reverse means 98% have regret to save the 2%.

Transgender women tend to have brain structures that resemble cisgender women, rather than cisgender men. Two sexually dimorphic (differing between men and women) areas of the brain are often compared between men and women. The bed nucleus of the stria terminalus (BSTc) and sexually dimorphic nucleus of transgender women are more similar to those of cisgender woman than to those of cisgender men, suggesting that the general brain structure of these women is in keeping with their gender identity. Several studies have shown that identical twins are more often both transgender than fraternal twins, indicating that there is indeed a genetic influence for this identity. So, what genes might be responsible?

@@smokexsmoke99 Cisgender women? man, I hate liberal terminology!! just say "women". Also, if small children are mature enough to decide whether they want to "change" their gender then it's only fair to let children also vote and drive cars.

@@Dah42 Trans is a reality for a lot of people who’s external appearance doesn’t align with their internal thoughts and feelings. With a true trans child where it all really begins is with that internal feelings of being a girl or a boy.

Great explanation 👍 you are so right its not a feeling

wow you are so smart, what is a female?

Amen to that

@@Chakotay2222 What is a stupid transphobic dogwhistle?

Dog whistling

Opinions expressed without facts-because they’re opinions-is not “talking truth.”

@@_artorical_ so what are you saying 😒

It’s nice he’s not speaking over her like he usually does.

And imagine... this used to be the norm. Now when it happens it's something to comment on. So Sad.

Yes I have been wanting to hear something civilized for YEARS.

why don't you agree? JK rowling was also respectful, heartfelt she got so much abuse it was shocking. but no man can ever be a woman, we now have men with sexual fetish for being women end up in prisons with women, raping them. and in their spaces. weilding power to change the defintion of woman. as a biologist major and a woman, and a south asian women in a country where girls get murdered for their sex when they are fetuses. all this lies about gender are pushing womens rights to a difficult position

I don’t know. I feel as though the LQBTQ community isn’t happy or content until people not only let them be, but then have to promote their lifestyle and praise it. I can’t do that. I won’t. I respect their right to be what they want but cannot and will not praise or promote it. To them, if often seems they call you transphobic for that opinion.

@@thefreestate762 It's not about promoting and praising. It's about respect.

@@thefreestate762 LGB has nothing to do with the T.

My thoughts exactly.

Bette Midler has indirectly spoken about this too!

Gracy is a woman? Wouldn't know it from the pic.

@@atlantic_love who the hell is gracy?

Finally ? Thousand of women do that for years now

Until she goes back on tv and apologizes

@@DmanDice because they're going to do everything in their power to destroy her life for speaking the truth how can anybody in his right mind can even believe because of couple of surgeries a man can become a woman or woman can be man this is the biggest lie in the history of human being on this planet

She can't even put a full sentence together for Christ's sake, but sure, go ahead, applaud her for her "truth."

I'm kind of split down the middle when it comes to transgenderism. On one hand, I agree with Macy Gray when she says trans women and female women are not the same thing. That's a fact, one is male the other is female. However, I also can understand people who state that gender and sex are not the same thing. If you actually research, their argument makes sense. Gender IS a socially constructed thing. For example, females are "supposed" to be Women, who wear pink and womanly things, display softer, "feminine" traits, while males are "supposed" to be men, who wear blue and manly things, display harder, "masculine" traits. These things aren't how some biological males and females are, so it's not fair to force males to be "men" and females to be "women". What if there's a natural born male who caters to being what society considers "womanhood" rather than "manhood", and therefore identifies as a woman? Not as a FEMALE, but as a WOMAN.

@@ninibugg6203 what's wrong with just calling transwomen transwomen? Why try to silence actual biological women just to make room for transwomen? A woman is a female and a male is a man. They can both be transmen or transwomen. When you leave the word trans out, you are going out of your way to muddy the water.

the word "woman" has been stolen by people who are biologically male. its a fucking scandal. Trans ideology is misogyny. Its like when women used to complain about sexual harassment. We were told we were wrong then too. Its the exact same thing.

🌸Thank you... & #Ladies I notice they're also trying to clutch our pearls now too smh!!

Absolutely, we've only been allowed to vote, get jobs and have a voice for the last 100 years or so. It's been a fight. We get disrespected when we are suffering that time of the month, which by the way is a real painful struggle! It's a mans world and now men want to cut their power tool off and be like us...can we not have anything without men gegging in?!! 😔

Weird comments 🤢🤢🤢

Just let people transition and shut up

Then why does our DNA allow us to transform into the opposite gender, with the right hormones? You are also missing the two points of reincarnation, and auto-philias. 1) We incarnated too many times as one gender. 2) We want more joy of what the other has, but couldn't experience in our earlier life, and %99 found we were correct, and are much happier for it. Why should this even matter anyway? We have nothing to do with anyone's life anyway. Nobody own anyone else, but the right thinks they do, and that's wrong.

You definitely are fearful, even if you won't admit it.

DNA is not gender. Keep up.

Agreed! There is a distinct difference between men and women and no amount of surgeries, hormone replacements, or make up can change that. It is disrespectful to not only lay claim to the opposite sex but then to also tell women they shouldn't speak up about their sex. That's why I disagree with entertaining any delusions that someone can change their sex in any capacity. We, as women, need to stand up for our own sex and stop playing pretend to placate their adult feelings.

@@cu5864 Amen!!!! Totally on the same page. I feel insulted when these dudes say that they know what it feels like to be a woman. Impossible.

"Aint I a Woman" is by Sojourner Truth. And yes agree to all you stated!!!

oh please, you're not suffering because someone else is a transgender.

So you transphobes claim that transgender people just pretend in order to get easy access to the opposite sex? I guess whoever thinks so has no clue about gender dysphoria and not interacted with affected people. I have a transgender boy in my house, and he can't help have a male identity... even though his body is female. There is a mismatch between brain and body, hard-wired into the brain, it is just a biological fact. He can't switch to the identity that matches his biological sex, just as we cis folks can't do the reverse. That's just a stubborn fact

There's a very small segment of society that doesn't identify as their gender at birth. These are people born with female genitals and male genitals who just don't identify with their gender. It's not any kind of assault on woman's rights. It's hard to get housing and a job as a transgender person, it's really just about giving people the dignity of being themselves and not being discriminated against. I think you would be hard pressed to find a transgender individual that doesn't support women's rights. From equal pay to anti-discriminatory policy and beyond. There's a lot of really good people in the transgender community. The vast majority of transgender people just want to work and live normally like everyone else and have healthy relationships.

@@ChocolateShakti Bell Hooks' book title is based on the speech written by Sojourner Truth and it's called "Ain't I a Woman" -- I own the book and it's beautifully written, just as timely and almost as powerful as Sojourner's historic speech!

It really helps having trans ally voices out there helping to talk about what makes this situation so rough.

That is what freedom is!

“Can’t Change That” Was The Jam 😊

Yep. She just owns it... And you cant take it away from her. Aged with grace too

Try to say goodbyyye but I choke, try to walk away and I stumbllllllle

Because you strongly agree with her on one topic?? lol I do agree with her too by the way but I wouldn't say she's a "wonderful" person based just on that

@@jihigh482 based

@@jihigh482 who says I am basing this on just this one opinion? Stop trying to be funny by assuming things … it makes you look ignorant

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Yeah the flag stays put

Brittany Riot how was she speaking out for women?

@@MissJade805 By defining us correctly and not going along with this push for MEN to co-opt our identities, spaces in the world, career opportunities (especially in sports), and essentially set any progress we've made back 100 years or more because MEN think that being a woman now only consists of their saying so--no parts even need to change! I actually received college credit in the '80s to learn all about "transexuals" at SF State, used to think I was so ahead of the curve in terms of what I knew about them, was in a punk band with a transwoman (no bottom surgery but at least hormones) and would always address her to reflect how she presented herself. Just like the abortion issue, this shit has gone too far (like abortion AFTER birth) and classical liberal values have been completely exploited for other agendas, like trafficking body parts and pushing for TRANSHUMANISM. F MEN in women's prisons, shelters, lockerrooms, bathrooms, bookclubs, sports or anywhere else that means WOMEN can't be safe, successful or just be themselves. I am still waiting to read about transmen breaking down the doors to compete against real men. Why is that? Because we have systematically lowered the expectations of what it means to be a man and because it is OBVIOUS that it would not be a fair competition and they would be creamed. Maybe for every transwoman who wants to compete, "she" needs to secure a transman to do the same. Or better yet, create trans competitions. That would be entertaining to watch that group decide on the rules!

The flag WILL change. Whether it's adding Puerto Rico and/or other territories, or states seceding. Count on it

@Utube Fknsucks - why is that?

She said what you believe does not make it true, and she is absolutely right about the flag thing

What’s wrong with a few brown stars geez

@@juliehirsh1436 why not just put rainbow stars

@@andreilyas1426 Nor does disagreeing with something make it false.

She is right about the flag issue.... The flag should be redesigned to represent what the United States is today.👈🏾

Totally agree!!

Go to your child's school and make it clear that this is NOT OK when your 13.yo. child comes home and says he is bisexual.. Tell them that you are NOT giving any concent to any sexual indoctrination of minors. I did. Every parent must do the same. The woke gone too far.

I agree with this. The stars of the flag represent states, not the color of the people living there. Using her logic, since women are the majority of the country and did not have rights back when the flag was created, should we put a Venus symbol on the flag? No, because it was understood that the flag did not mean power or control over women, it represented all who lived under it, including women of the time.

@@brokenland5154 you are completely correct and I love seeing people speak the truth.

You clearly didn’t understand what she was saying but ok