Jul 1, 2025 · 1 hr 2 min · 9 segments
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Michael HobbesHost
Peter ShamshiriHostUh, okay, so we are going to talk about the Scrimetti decision eventually, but first of all, I just want to talk about the series of events that leads to the legal case.
The whole thing starts in 2018 when the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville opens a, like, transgender youth center and starts seeing patients.
Hm.
As with all these clinics, this starts getting targeted by right-wingers.
There's a couple little posts in random places about like, "Oh, this clinic is like doing things to kids," whatever.
Nothing really catches fire until September 20th of 2022, when the clinic is targeted by a Twitter thread by Matt Walsh, who's like a right-wing psychotic influencer.
Cool.
I'm exci- (laughs) This is great.
We love, we love going on X.
This is from September 2022.
Matt says, "Breaking..." (laughs)
"Breaking."
"My team and I have been investigating the transgender clinic at Vanderbilt here in Nashville.
Vanderbilt drugs, chemically castrates, and performs double mastectomies on minors, but it gets worse.
Here is what we found.
Let's start at the beginning."
He's like, "Buckle up, chucklefucks.
Here's a threat."
Me and my team, three 21-year-olds.
(laughs) Also, investigating is like, we've been Googling things that the medical center puts out so that we can take them out of context.
He says, "Vanderbilt opened its trans clinic in 2018.
During a lecture the same year, Doctor Shane Taylor explained how she convinced Nashville to get into the gender transition game.
She emphasized that it's a big money-maker, especially because the surgeries require a lot of follow-ups."
They did this at the urging of big pharma.
Uh, okay, so we are going to talk about the Scrimetti decision eventually, but first of all, I just want to talk about the series of events that leads to the legal case.
The whole thing starts in 2018 when the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville opens a, like, transgender youth center and starts seeing patients.
Hm.
As with all these clinics, this starts getting targeted by right-wingers.
There's a couple little posts in random places about like, "Oh, this clinic is like doing things to kids," whatever.
Nothing really catches fire until September 20th of 2022, when the clinic is targeted by a Twitter thread by Matt Walsh, who's like a right-wing psychotic influencer.
Cool.
I'm exci- (laughs) This is great.
We love, we love going on X.
This is from September 2022.
Matt says, "Breaking..." (laughs)
"Breaking."
"My team and I have been investigating the transgender clinic at Vanderbilt here in Nashville.
Vanderbilt drugs, chemically castrates, and performs double mastectomies on minors, but it gets worse.
Here is what we found.
Let's start at the beginning."
He's like, "Buckle up, chucklefucks.
Here's a threat."
Me and my team, three 21-year-olds.
(laughs) Also, investigating is like, we've been Googling things that the medical center puts out so that we can take them out of context.
He says, "Vanderbilt opened its trans clinic in 2018.
During a lecture the same year, Doctor Shane Taylor explained how she convinced Nashville to get into the gender transition game.
She emphasized that it's a big money-maker, especially because the surgeries require a lot of follow-ups."
They did this at the urging of big pharma.
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