@meifahsmusings9953

October 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

Doctors observe sex of newborns not their gender. When physician pronounces "boy" or "girl" they really mean "male" or "female". Agree with you sex and gender are different things. Expression of gender is different from sex and gender.
@meifahsmusings9953

October 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

Kind of a useless thought experiment. It in no way represents or approximates in any meaningful way the reality people live and experience. One is raised female or one is raised male. Two fundamentally differing ways to grow up. Of course if you know you will only be changed for one day and the only change is what is hidden from view why would it change anything? You are still the sum of your life experiences. When the day passes it has no more impact than does a dream of being opposite sex of which all or almost all of us have experienced.
@koboldcatgirl

October 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

Bring clapping back clapping the string *clapping
@TheEstebandido83

October 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

How these videos dont have millions of views?? This man is freaking smart.
@arenl.s.6119

October 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

I don't consider myself as trans or cis, as something constructed I preffer do not be a part of being man or woman, preffer to be more to neutral, I don't have problem with my sex. Anyway as a student of biology I think you should look to study of Bao & Swaab from 2011, that show the difference in a part of brain of cis and trans, also the studies of doctor Roger Gorski from 80's where it show the effect of hormones (I am against animal testing, but once is done I don't reject the results).
@okayokay6963

October 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

As a trans man, I stopped using the term “born in the wrong body” because it makes it sound like I need my organs replaced with “male” organs.

I also think gender dysphoria is amongst all trans people BUT there are levels on where you are at on the spectrum of discomfort. Some people get surgeries while some people get hrt while some people just change their name. Hell some do all and some do none
I guess that’s how I feel on it
@rosejuliette5965

October 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

I'm a trans woman and I don't have gender dysphoria. Also it can come and go in varying intensities.
@samimay05

October 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

Is it bad that I'm trans myself and I literally know nothing about other trans people?
@renardleblanc5556

October 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

btw, fwiw: since you mentioned it, "redux" is pronounced "re-do"… the x is completely silent, like in Sioux, bordeaux, or faux-pas. It's a french thing.
@beancheesedip8337

October 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

I have another huge problem with the whole "mental disorder" thing. And that is that its not like we don't help people with different mental disorders. Its not like we go, "oh, you have depression? Well, that's your own thing, but I think you should be allowed to be fired for that. Also, you can't marry the person you want to marry. Also, get fucked." No, we don't do that, we help them. It just happens to be that the way to help some people is to let them get sex changes and take hormonal therapy.
@mattrozzel2997

October 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

2 seconds in and my damn mind blown…
It's preface all over again
@TaeyxBlack

October 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

maybe you can explain this portion because it’s the part of the discussion that confuses me: what does me mean to feel like a particular gender? you’ve admitted that it’s a social concept that we as a society kind of made up, but what does it mean to “feel” like one or the other gender? like a woman who identifies as a man, what does that mean? i guess what i’m asking is how do we define each of these genders and what are the parameters or elements of the “man/boy” gender or the “woman/girl” gender?
@Colleywoodstudios

October 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

ooooh careful youre sounding tolerant and understanding
@neuteka

October 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

I'm a huge fan of the channel, but I wasn't too pleased with the video, to be honest. I'm not going to go into too much detail today, but I'll say one thing: I really couldn't get behind the stop sign analogy. Stop signs aren't arbitrary by any means. They are there so we don't get hit by other cars, dude. Gender isn't really comparable to stop signs. I know it's "just an analogy" but it was pretty weak.
@ensign_poo

October 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

I feel like the redux videos could be podcasts with guests.
@Him__Downstairs

October 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

wow i've never seen this much jump cutting before.
@keinchi

October 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

I enjoy your video's a lot and honestly I think you need to collaborate with similar 'tubers to gain a wider audience.
@vanhovemare

October 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

Super cool 🙂
@RoseEyed

October 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

Noting what was said about gender/body disphoria

I like to think of it as a "disorder" rather than a disorder, kind of like how having mild social anxiety or an adjustment disorder after moving to a new place is a "disorder". Medical diagnosis can be very fickle at times.

1) It's important to note that many medical and psychological diagnosis are based on what we collectively consider to be abnormal behavior. And what constitutes as abnormal is continually evolving. For example, women wearing pants or homosexuality was considered abnormal. But it isn't now because… idk we got used to it?

2) On that note, what I mean with my quotes. Given the extremes some trans people may go to embrace their true identity, the abuse some may experience, or its relative uncommonness (statistically speaking) it could be considered "abnormal" and a "disorder". But unlike most "disorders" the easiest way to "treat" it is to literally let the person be the gender they identify with. That's it. They're "cured".

So yes, it's a "disorder" but on a scale of 1-10, 10 being the most extreme I'd say it's probably a 2 or 3 at the most vs. other disorders like severe PTSD or OCD or schizophrenia that are closer to a 6-8. Low enough that as time goes on, we probably won't even consider it one.
@Gestureye7x

October 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

Loving your commentaries! Enjoy your videos!
@vootcaboot6

October 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

As a enby trans woman, this is incredibly great and I love it and you explain it all so well.
@maj.peppers3332

October 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

I've come to the point where I recognize the entire gender spectrum, and at the same time think it's total rubbish. Not because there aren't that many genders, but because gender is just kind of stupid, shallow, and arbitrary. I'm a male homo sapien, I have tendencies and behavioral traits that the society around me labels as "masculine". Yet, I still exhibit "feminine" behaviors and traits. Personally, I don't give a shit, because my gender "identity" doesn't matter really. I still have a penis, I'm still the same person, and I'm still not gonna give a fuck if people are male, female, androgynous, or whatever, as long as they are nice and aren't total jerkoffs, then they'll get all the respect in the world from me.

Race and gender are two more labels that have so much historical value, but no literal value. Honestly, what good does it do anyone to say "you're black, you're white, you're male, you're female", etc when we are all the same species? It's just more pointless separation.
@iLOVEpicklesBRO28

October 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

Most trans people dont use the born in the wrong body phrase, since dysphoria doesnt feel like your whole body is wrong, just things came out wrong.

And for transsexual, we tend not to use it bc it can be considered offensive, mainly to people who don't think being trans should be considered a medical condition. I'm not offended by it personally, but it is a lil… Uncomfortable to hear
@purple-perennial

October 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

Hey the1janitor, you should check out Yorick's channel. He's a transman with an interesting but somewhat controversial perspective on transgenderism. I guess the label you could assign him would be a "transmedicalist/truscum"
@BennyOcean

October 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

2:10 "those words do not mean the same thing".

Yes they do.
@yendorii340

October 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

I was recommended this video because I have long expressed confusion about the trans movement. After watching your video I am confused in a different way.

I preface this by saying that everyone deserves to be treated well, no matter their circumstances. If i am to accept the trans movement then I wish to understand exactly what im accepting. I can understand that sex and gender are different, but it seems to be something that confuses me in this context. I have been told that not all trans people wish to alter their sex. This would be a less confusing issue for me if we were discussing only the transfer people who do not wish to have surgery. In such a case then it's obviously a personal preference for a gender, as amorphous as that term is to me, and not something related to sex. The pre/post op trans identities lead to a certain amount of confusion though. If sex and gender are as distinct as you portray then why are people moved, by their gender identity, to alter their sexual organs? I'm fine with the justification of "it's mine I can do what I want," that would be easy to accept, the difficulty for me is that it's so integrated into the transfer movement as a whole that it seems to be something that the transfer community wants to be inherently justified under the concept of "being trans."

If being trans shouldn't be mixed with sex altering then fine, I accept it fully. If being trans includes the concept of sex alteration then the gender/sex distinction blurs and becomes incoherent to me.
@bridgetgehrling4116

October 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

You mentioned, in another video, that you may be "Preaching to the choir" and you may be speaking to people who already share our views. That is mostly true for me; I most often identify with the opinions you express. One of the biggest reasons I subscribe to your channel (?) is that you have a talent for expressing those ideas. I really like the way you speak to the issues that concern you. Watching and listening to you helps me to better articulate the way I think about these issues. That is not to say that I think, "What would the Janitor say?". But I do value your opinion and appreciate that you express them in this public way. Thank you so much!
@danielbonfield5295

October 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

Not listed as a disorder anymore, if I recall. Not since the DSM V came out.
@happypirate1000

October 25, 2025 at 11:04 pm

One of my favorite vlogbrothers video about this is Hank's Human Sexuality is Complicated… He explains things well, too.