Calmly Destroying Christian Apologists with Science for an Hour

Frank Turek and Sean McDowell make ridiculous pseudoscientific claims about LGBTQ people. Here I debunk them with actual scientific research.

Claims I debunk:
Abuse and trauma cause non-heterosexuality and gender non-conformity, not affirming queer people is the best way to help them, being gender nonconforming is a social media contagion, rapid onset gender dysphoria is real, gender dysphoria can and should only be treated with therapy or prayer, gender dysphoria is similar to and should be treated in the same way as anorexia, 80% of gender dysphoric youths grow out of it by age 18, medical intervention for gender dysphoria does not help mental health outcomes, and trans s rates skyrocket 10 years after transition.

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00:00 Intro

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[watermelonmpls]

If homosexual friends of mine only hung out with me because they wanted to convert me out of heterosexuality, I would be horrified. Telling Christian straight kids to befriend people in order to make them straight is so messed up.

[chilltheheckoutwithava]

“I’m being treated poorly for treating people poorly! 😡“

[CaydeElric]

I actually laughed out loud when he said, "Now Christians are being treated poorly." The neverending persecution complex of Christians when they are the dominant religion in the US, occupy basically every level of government, and are only being asked to not discriminate is ridiculous and laughable.

[Chia-rae]

My mere existence disproves the argument of "I've never met a lesbian who wasn't abused".

[greg-opjh]

I am gay. I have known since I was 7. I was never sexually abused until later on in life way after I had come out. I was 23 and was drunk and high. But that had nothing to do with it. My partner never has either and he had a wonderful childhood. This is a load of crap this idea it's because of trauma. The only trauma I have had was in the Christian church. Praying everyday to not be gay and being told I was an abomination. That's what drove me to numb with drugs and alcohol. I am agnostic now and much happier.

[SomeoneOnlyWeKnow.]

When Christians say _"why is it wrong to hurt people if there isn't a god who will punish you for it"_ it's so disturbing

[GeneticallyModifiedSkeptic]

Sorry for the occasional glitches in the graphics. This project nearly destroyed my computer and I couldn’t buff those out no matter what. I hope they’re not too distracting.

[Chloe]

I'm getting so tired of this "cut off perfectly good body parts" from the people who have been insisting on circumcision for ages!

[bobbabai]

Turek empathizes with LGBTQ people and their struggle. All while making their struggle necessary, all by himself.

[whysocurious]

Things to believe your friend who works at Starbucks told you:
-they’re having a sale next week
-they’re discontinuing the pumpkin spice latte tomorrow

Things to DOUBT your friend who works at Starbucks about:
-every lgbt person ever was the result of childhood SA


I don’t understand why Frank thinks Starbucks employees know everything about every lgbt person ever. Maybe he just has no respect for the intelligence levels of his audience.

[penutpickle]

I absolutely love the phrasing of "disagree" in terms of homosexuality.

Guy: I'm a homosexual.

Christian: Nah, I disagree.

[damelas]

"People choose to be gay." If someone makes this claim, they are, in fact, claiming that everyone is born heterosexual, and then just choosing, to not only abstain from a romantic or sexual relationship with the sex they are truly attracted to, but then going a step further and actually engaging in sex and romance with the sex that they would find naturally repulsive. Why in the world would anyone do such a thing?

[davidbritnn]

Who in heck would ever think that coming out as trans would be an attempt to fit in?! I can promise you as soon as my daughter came out we were very aware that we would get pushed to the margins of society. That's not fitting in. People didn't applaud her here in Alabama for sure. That paragraph was the biggest bunch of BS claims I might have ever heard concerning transgenderism. No, my daughter was never sexually assaulted nor did she have any unique traumas in her childhood nor did she have any reason to want to 'stick it' to her parents. And I can name other families who would say that same. How insipid that whole statement was is stunning to me.

[goosie]

When he said he didn’t know a lesbian who wasn’t abused, it just shows how few lesbians he knows. Immoral people like him don’t care about queer people, they want to live in their fantasy world we don’t exist. As a trans person who had a good and supportive childhood, outside of being lied to about god and gaslit into denying who I am, I’m not trans because of mistreatment as a child, I’m trans and was different so my experience was not that of average cis people.

[njhoepner]

Thanks for taking up this issue again! I was still an evangelical christian when my younger child announced to me that "she" was actually "he." We resisted this idea for TWO YEARS...prayer, therapy, debates...whatever else it was, it was not a "fad" nor a "sudden onset" even if it seemed that way to us surprised parents. We finally accepted our child's insistence and supported the transition...the turnaround in mental health, happiness, and confidence was and is profound. That was five years ago. We got our kid back...and that means more to me than ten thousand bibles.

[anyonecan]

my sibling was one of Dr. Zucker's patients, another factor not considered, is that Zucker's conversion therapy caused people to go deeply into the closet. My sibling is in therapy now because of the damage done by the therapy. My best friend who was also a patient of the clinic, took his own life in 2018 after suffering from PTSD that originated with the "treatment". It isn't simply misdiagnosis, it was the hubris of the doctors not understanding the harm they were doing to those kids.

[Green-ishEcho]

"why is murder wrong?"

Do I want get murdered? No? So why would I want to go murder other people?

"How do you base morality?"
Compassion, empathy and the golden rule. Treat other people as I would want to be treated.

"Isn't that subjective?"
Yes it is, it always has been. The magic book isn't even consistent either. Society works pretty damn good without it.

[amtm]

"stop punching me"
"But my God told me to"
"I don't think that's true, but either way, stop punching me"
*Continues punching* "but what's your moral standard, hmm?"

[esbenm]

Frank's "trump card" is just the most basic misunderstanding of philosophy

[Duskbound]

Even rats are capable of empathy and doing the right thing. Are rats religious somehow?