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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why Megan Murphy Was Banned from Twitter for Life' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-08-20. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- Let's go to your story.
- Okay, okay, okay.
- So explain to everybody what happened with you.
- Okay, hmm, I mean, I'm not sure how far back
you want me to start, but.
- How, you getting kicked off Twitter, let's.
- Okay, so, I mean, I was one of the only people in Canada
who was talking about gender identity critically.
I'm not saying that to big myself up,
it was very annoying, 'cause I obviously was targeted.
So there was Jordan Peterson, who spoke out,
and then there was me,
and then there was like a couple other people.
And I was pretty vocal about it.
I first started talking about it back in like 2016, 2017,
because the liberal government was pushing through Bill C-16,
which was our gender identity legislation.
So they were trying to, and succeeded in,
'cause the bill passed, incorporate gender identity
into the human rights code, and the criminal code.
And I went and testified against that bill
to say like this bill shouldn't pass,
it'll have a negative impact on women's rights,
which of course it did. - For people
that don't know what the bill, what it means,
could you explain what it means?
'Cause some folks aren't hip to the argument.
- Right, sorry, I shouldn't assume.
- And also that Canada, we should explain,
Canada does not have a First Amendment.
So you don't have freedom of speech over there.
You have Human Rights Council, right?
So and then if laws violate, if rather some of your speech
violates the laws that they put in place,
you can literally be arrested.
- Yeah, you can, you go through a human rights tribunal.
And so, I mean, the law didn't actually, it was very vague.
Like it didn't specifically say, for example, you know,
if you misgender somebody, that's a hate crime,
or hate speech, or something like that.
All it did was to say that gender identity
and gender expression essentially needed to be protected
under the law, just like whatever race,
other sort of marginalized identities or whatever.
- And what we thought would happen, which did happen,
is that it would sort of direct policy.
And it would mean that, you know,
anybody could use any bathroom or change room.
It would mean that men would have to be allowed
in transition houses and women's shelters
if they identified as women.
It would mean that men could be transferred
to female prisons if they identified as women.
And essentially like, to me, the concept of gender identity
nullifies sex.
Like you can't have both.
You can't say either you are a woman
and you're a woman because you're female
or you identify as a woman.
You can't, you can't do both.
And then anybody, of course, can identify as a woman.
I'm sort of going about this a long way,
but yeah, I was just worried about the implications.
I testified at the Senate, Jordan Peterson testified.
Are you okay?
- Yeah, just take another sip.
- And so essentially like,
I was the loudest feminist voice in Canada, by far.
And I was tweeting about these issues.
I was asking questions about gender identity.
I was sort of saying like, what does this mean?
Like I said, one of the tweets
that my account was locked down for was,
what's the difference between a man and a trans woman?
And I wasn't saying that to try to be rude.
- Right.
- I was saying like, somebody please explain
what happens to a man between him being a man
and then him being a trans woman.
Do you know what I mean?
Like if he hasn't had any surgeries or anything like that,
not that I think that a surgery can change your sex,
but like, what is it?
So now yesterday he was a man.
Today he identifies as a woman or a trans woman.
What's happened here?
What does this mean?
It was just so nonsensical.
It's just a belief system, right?
- Well, it can get even worse, right?
But you can decide to go back and forth throughout the day.
- Yeah, I mean, you can-
- People have, they've allowed that.
This is also accepted.
Like you can be gender fluid
and you can be gender fluid depending upon your mood
multiple times a day.
- Right.
And yeah, and that's what the concept
of gender identity does.
It's just an identity.
It's just something you say.
- Right.
- Like it could be something you feel,
but it's just a proclamation.
There's no material reality involved.
There's nothing concrete.
There's nothing you can point to.
You know, essentially like it's akin to a religion
as far as I'm concerned.
It's faith-based, right?
So, you know, I feel like these laws are in a way
sort of enforcing religion on people.
Like it's like they're enforcing this like faith-based-
- Woke religion.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Yeah, a lot of ways.
- I mean, you could call it progressive,
but it's of course not progressive.
It's just weird and nonsensical
and has a terrible impact on women.
But, so one of the tweets that I was locked down for
was that one, you know,
what's the difference between a man and a trans woman?
- Just a question.
- Yeah.
- And so they suspended you for that.
- So they, yeah, they locked down my account
and they're like, you have to delete this tweet
if you want your account back.
I appealed it.
It was, every time I've appealed anything,
it's just been totally ignored.
They don't explain why.
They never tell me what rules I break either.
- Right.
- Or did break, right?
Like they never said, they say hateful conduct,
but they don't say, oh, it's this specific rule.
Like you're not allowed to misgender or dead name
or whatever it would be.
I mean, I don't even know what rule that would break
saying like, what's the difference between a man
and a trans woman?
The other tweet of course was men aren't women,
which wasn't targeted at anybody.
I wasn't saying you're not a woman.
It was like part of a thread.
It was part of a conversation that was back and forth.
And I was like, but men aren't women.
That was one of them that got me locked down again.
And then.
- Which is crazy.
- Well, yeah.
- We're literally like denying biology.
- I mean, so what I think, I don't know.
Cause again, no one's really explained anything to me.
No one from Twitter has communicated with me.
No one said what I did wrong.
So I'm just guessing.
- Can I tell you what they said?
- Yeah.
- They said that you were told to delete the tweet,
but you took a screenshot of it and you deleted it,
but then reposted the screenshot.
- I did do that.
I didn't know that I wasn't allowed to do that when I did that.
So I wasn't trying to be a dick.
Like I wasn't trying to be like, fuck you.
I was so mad.
And I was like, are you fucking serious?
Like I got banned for saying like men aren't women,
for asking these really basic questions.
- That was their justification to me as to why they banned you
for the rest of your life.
- Well, fair, fair.
- Which is fucking bananas.
- Yeah.
- You're the, there's the example that I bring up
when I talk about this idea that you can just ban people
for saying things that are factually correct,
maybe politically insensitive, you know,
dependent upon the current climate,
but factually correct, biologically correct,
scientifically correct.
Maybe you might say that it's not kind, like,
but what is wrong with being,
are we really deciding that there's certain rules
that we want to apply in regards to progressive thinking
that bypass or supersede biology?
Is that what we're doing?
Because when you say a man,
if you say a man is never a woman,
that's what you said?
- Men aren't women.
- Men aren't women.
- Men aren't women.
- That's a fact.
- Yeah. - Men are not women.
Now, I believe in trans women.
I think there are people that have gender dysphoria
and I think there are people that are happier
if they identify as a woman, dress as a woman,
are treated like a woman or, you know,
use a woman's name and people describe them as a woman.
It's obviously real, right?
They obviously exist.
- I think, I mean, sure.
Like, I could buy that there's such a thing as gender dysphoria,
so you have some kind of, like, mental condition or mental illness.
I'm not trying to be mean, I swear to God.
Like, people get, like, triggered if you say, like, a mental illness.
But I'm like, you literally think you're something that you're not.
Like, you literally believe you're a male, you actually believe you're a woman.
And that's a form of mental illness.
Fine. It doesn't mean you're a bad person.
And I don't care what, if you want to dress in women's clothes,
if you want to wear makeup, if you want to get cosmetic surgeries,
if you want to change your name, go for it.
Like, do whatever makes you feel better, that's fine.
But I'm not going to lie to comfort you or whomever else.
So, I don't even agree that, like, gender dysphoria means there's such a thing
as a trans woman.
Like, to me, I'm still, like, this concept doesn't make any sense.
What's a trans woman?
Like, what does it mean?
Do you have to be on hormones?
Do you have to have a bunch of surgeries?
Do you have to have, like, a neo-vagina?
- It's weird because, like, it's very strict that you must accept that people
are trans women.
But then, like, what defines a trans woman is completely open to interpretation.
It's the person who decides whatever identity they identify with, male, female,
whatever it is, it's up to them.
It's up to them whether they have surgery, it's up to them whether they take
hormones, it's up to them whatever.
You can do absolutely nothing.
You could have a full beard and say you're a woman with a penis, functional
testicles, no problem at all.
And you could say you're a woman and everyone has to agree.
Speaking of which, the final tweet that I was actually banned for, so they
locked me down for those two things, right?
And then the final straw for them was when I said, "Yeah, it's him," in
reference to Jessica Yaniv, who was once Jonathan.
Um, if you recall, he was the, the man in Vancouver who was going around to
local estheticians and asking them to give him a Brazilian bikini wax.
Yeah.
Um, and he is fully a man.
I mean...
Fully a man.
Intact testicles.
Intact penis.
Yeah.
Everything.
I mean...
He's also a crazy person.
A crazy person.
And a major fucking creep.
Like, and he's messaging these women on Facebook, um, I think sometimes under
like a fake photo and name, so maybe with like a woman's photo and woman's name
that's not him.
And then they would realize that he was a man, I guess maybe if they talked to
him on the phone or something like that, and they'd be like, "No, sorry, like
we don't offer this service to men."
And he would accuse them of transphobia and essentially try to extort money out
of them.
And when that didn't work, I guess he decided he wanted to, I mean, again, he's
a crazy person, so we can't take this as representative of very much other than
the fact that he's like a grifter and a crazy person.
But, you know, to take them all to the human rights tribunal, um, to say he's
being discriminated against.
But this is exactly, exactly the perfect example of what happens if you just
say anybody's a woman, and you just have to accept it.
He has a penis, he has balls, he obviously looks like a man.
At that time, he was still using his male name, um, in various places, like on
Facebook, some other places.
I think on Twitter at that time he was, um, maybe using both names, um, but it,
there was, there was nothing to show me that he was a woman.
So, I said, yeah, it's him.
I figured out that it was him.
Um, and then I was permanently banned, yeah, and that was in November.
And that was it.
I appealed.
They were like, nope, sorry, hateful conduct.
Again, didn't tell me what rule I broke.
20 minutes after I was banned, I was banned on Friday night, I was at the bar,
I was like, what the fuck?
I'm trying to have fun!
Um, 20 minutes after I was banned, Pink News, which is like a, like, LGBT queer
news site, um, they posted an article saying, "Twitter has a new rule against
misgendering and deadnaming."
And I was like, oh, this is a really funny coincidence that this went out 20
minutes after I was banned for some rule that they didn't specify, but I can
only assume was misgendering.
Yeah.
Misgendering.
Misgendering a man who's a predator and who was still going by his male name in
various places on the internet.
Whoops.
So, I mean, he should have been banned too from misgendering himself.
Good point.
Thank you.
It's, it's just so weird.
Cause it's the one area that, uh, there's no room for, there's no room for
interpretation.
There's no room for debate or nuance.
It's just like, you cannot misgender.
You cannot deadname.
You cannot, like...
And you're cruel and horrible if you do.
Yeah.
They're cruel and horrible to you.
Well, yeah.
I mean, the things that people aren't banned for on Twitter.
I mean, I have been, like, subject to countless death threats.
Like, you should die, you get the wall, you should go to the gulag.
Like, people show, you know, like, people say horrible things to me online.
I honestly don't care.
Like, I'm like, it's the internet.
People say horrible things.
I'm not gonna crumble or feel hurt or offended because somebody says some
bullshit to me on Twitter.
But you can't even say "he" to somebody who's declared themselves a woman or
you're essentially guilty of hate speech.
But they can call you stupid bitch.
And worse.
Yeah, and worse.
Believe it or not.
What's worse?
Turf cunt?
I don't know.
Oh, there you go.
Kill yourself, you turf cunt.
I've gotten that one.
Oh, that turf was my favorite.
Yeah.
Trans, exclusionary, radical, feminist.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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Why Megan Murphy Was Banned from Twitter for Life

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- Let's go to your story.
- Okay, okay, okay.
- So explain to everybody what happened with you.
- Okay, hmm, I mean, I'm not sure how far back
you want me to start, but.
- How, you getting kicked off Twitter, let's.
- Okay, so, I mean, I was one of the only people in Canada
who was talking about gender identity critically.
I'm not saying that to big myself up,
it was very annoying, 'cause I obviously was targeted.
So there was Jordan Peterson, who spoke out,
and then there was me,
and then there was like a couple other people.
And I was pretty vocal about it.
I first started talking about it back in like 2016, 2017,
because the liberal government was pushing through Bill C-16,
which was our gender identity legislation.
So they were trying to, and succeeded in,
'cause the bill passed, incorporate gender identity
into the human rights code, and the criminal code.
And I went and testified against that bill
to say like this bill shouldn't pass,
it'll have a negative impact on women's rights,
which of course it did. - For people
that don't know what the bill, what it means,
could you explain what it means?
'Cause some folks aren't hip to the argument.
- Right, sorry, I shouldn't assume.
- And also that Canada, we should explain,
Canada does not have a First Amendment.
So you don't have freedom of speech over there.
You have Human Rights Council, right?
So and then if laws violate, if rather some of your speech
violates the laws that they put in place,
you can literally be arrested.
- Yeah, you can, you go through a human rights tribunal.
And so, I mean, the law didn't actually, it was very vague.
Like it didn't specifically say, for example, you know,
if you misgender somebody, that's a hate crime,
or hate speech, or something like that.
All it did was to say that gender identity
and gender expression essentially needed to be protected
under the law, just like whatever race,
other sort of marginalized identities or whatever.
- And what we thought would happen, which did happen,
is that it would sort of direct policy.
And it would mean that, you know,
anybody could use any bathroom or change room.
It would mean that men would have to be allowed
in transition houses and women's shelters
if they identified as women.
It would mean that men could be transferred
to female prisons if they identified as women.
And essentially like, to me, the concept of gender identity
nullifies sex.
Like you can't have both.
You can't say either you are a woman
and you're a woman because you're female
or you identify as a woman.
You can't, you can't do both.
And then anybody, of course, can identify as a woman.
I'm sort of going about this a long way,
but yeah, I was just worried about the implications.
I testified at the Senate, Jordan Peterson testified.
Are you okay?
- Yeah, just take another sip.
- And so essentially like,
I was the loudest feminist voice in Canada, by far.
And I was tweeting about these issues.
I was asking questions about gender identity.
I was sort of saying like, what does this mean?
Like I said, one of the tweets
that my account was locked down for was,
what's the difference between a man and a trans woman?
And I wasn't saying that to try to be rude.
- Right.
- I was saying like, somebody please explain
what happens to a man between him being a man
and then him being a trans woman.
Do you know what I mean?
Like if he hasn't had any surgeries or anything like that,
not that I think that a surgery can change your sex,
but like, what is it?
So now yesterday he was a man.
Today he identifies as a woman or a trans woman.
What's happened here?
What does this mean?
It was just so nonsensical.
It's just a belief system, right?
- Well, it can get even worse, right?
But you can decide to go back and forth throughout the day.
- Yeah, I mean, you can-
- People have, they've allowed that.
This is also accepted.
Like you can be gender fluid
and you can be gender fluid depending upon your mood
multiple times a day.
- Right.
And yeah, and that's what the concept
of gender identity does.
It's just an identity.
It's just something you say.
- Right.
- Like it could be something you feel,
but it's just a proclamation.
There's no material reality involved.
There's nothing concrete.
There's nothing you can point to.
You know, essentially like it's akin to a religion
as far as I'm concerned.
It's faith-based, right?
So, you know, I feel like these laws are in a way
sort of enforcing religion on people.
Like it's like they're enforcing this like faith-based-
- Woke religion.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Yeah, a lot of ways.
- I mean, you could call it progressive,
but it's of course not progressive.
It's just weird and nonsensical
and has a terrible impact on women.
But, so one of the tweets that I was locked down for
was that one, you know,
what's the difference between a man and a trans woman?
- Just a question.
- Yeah.
- And so they suspended you for that.
- So they, yeah, they locked down my account
and they're like, you have to delete this tweet
if you want your account back.
I appealed it.
It was, every time I've appealed anything,
it's just been totally ignored.
They don't explain why.
They never tell me what rules I break either.
- Right.
- Or did break, right?
Like they never said, they say hateful conduct,
but they don't say, oh, it's this specific rule.
Like you're not allowed to misgender or dead name
or whatever it would be.
I mean, I don't even know what rule that would break
saying like, what's the difference between a man
and a trans woman?
The other tweet of course was men aren't women,
which wasn't targeted at anybody.
I wasn't saying you're not a woman.
It was like part of a thread.
It was part of a conversation that was back and forth.
And I was like, but men aren't women.
That was one of them that got me locked down again.
And then.
- Which is crazy.
- Well, yeah.
- We're literally like denying biology.
- I mean, so what I think, I don't know.
Cause again, no one's really explained anything to me.
No one from Twitter has communicated with me.
No one said what I did wrong.
So I'm just guessing.
- Can I tell you what they said?
- Yeah.
- They said that you were told to delete the tweet,
but you took a screenshot of it and you deleted it,
but then reposted the screenshot.
- I did do that.
I didn't know that I wasn't allowed to do that when I did that.
So I wasn't trying to be a dick.
Like I wasn't trying to be like, fuck you.
I was so mad.
And I was like, are you fucking serious?
Like I got banned for saying like men aren't women,
for asking these really basic questions.
- That was their justification to me as to why they banned you
for the rest of your life.
- Well, fair, fair.
- Which is fucking bananas.
- Yeah.
- You're the, there's the example that I bring up
when I talk about this idea that you can just ban people
for saying things that are factually correct,
maybe politically insensitive, you know,
dependent upon the current climate,
but factually correct, biologically correct,
scientifically correct.
Maybe you might say that it's not kind, like,
but what is wrong with being,
are we really deciding that there's certain rules
that we want to apply in regards to progressive thinking
that bypass or supersede biology?
Is that what we're doing?
Because when you say a man,
if you say a man is never a woman,
that's what you said?
- Men aren't women.
- Men aren't women.
- Men aren't women.
- That's a fact.
- Yeah. - Men are not women.
Now, I believe in trans women.
I think there are people that have gender dysphoria
and I think there are people that are happier
if they identify as a woman, dress as a woman,
are treated like a woman or, you know,
use a woman's name and people describe them as a woman.
It's obviously real, right?
They obviously exist.
- I think, I mean, sure.
Like, I could buy that there's such a thing as gender dysphoria,
so you have some kind of, like, mental condition or mental illness.
I'm not trying to be mean, I swear to God.
Like, people get, like, triggered if you say, like, a mental illness.
But I'm like, you literally think you're something that you're not.
Like, you literally believe you're a male, you actually believe you're a woman.
And that's a form of mental illness.
Fine. It doesn't mean you're a bad person.
And I don't care what, if you want to dress in women's clothes,
if you want to wear makeup, if you want to get cosmetic surgeries,
if you want to change your name, go for it.
Like, do whatever makes you feel better, that's fine.
But I'm not going to lie to comfort you or whomever else.
So, I don't even agree that, like, gender dysphoria means there's such a thing
as a trans woman.
Like, to me, I'm still, like, this concept doesn't make any sense.
What's a trans woman?
Like, what does it mean?
Do you have to be on hormones?
Do you have to have a bunch of surgeries?
Do you have to have, like, a neo-vagina?
- It's weird because, like, it's very strict that you must accept that people
are trans women.
But then, like, what defines a trans woman is completely open to interpretation.
It's the person who decides whatever identity they identify with, male, female,
whatever it is, it's up to them.
It's up to them whether they have surgery, it's up to them whether they take
hormones, it's up to them whatever.
You can do absolutely nothing.
You could have a full beard and say you're a woman with a penis, functional
testicles, no problem at all.
And you could say you're a woman and everyone has to agree.
Speaking of which, the final tweet that I was actually banned for, so they
locked me down for those two things, right?
And then the final straw for them was when I said, "Yeah, it's him," in
reference to Jessica Yaniv, who was once Jonathan.
Um, if you recall, he was the, the man in Vancouver who was going around to
local estheticians and asking them to give him a Brazilian bikini wax.
Yeah.
Um, and he is fully a man.
I mean...
Fully a man.
Intact testicles.
Intact penis.
Yeah.
Everything.
I mean...
He's also a crazy person.
A crazy person.
And a major fucking creep.
Like, and he's messaging these women on Facebook, um, I think sometimes under
like a fake photo and name, so maybe with like a woman's photo and woman's name
that's not him.
And then they would realize that he was a man, I guess maybe if they talked to
him on the phone or something like that, and they'd be like, "No, sorry, like
we don't offer this service to men."
And he would accuse them of transphobia and essentially try to extort money out
of them.
And when that didn't work, I guess he decided he wanted to, I mean, again, he's
a crazy person, so we can't take this as representative of very much other than
the fact that he's like a grifter and a crazy person.
But, you know, to take them all to the human rights tribunal, um, to say he's
being discriminated against.
But this is exactly, exactly the perfect example of what happens if you just
say anybody's a woman, and you just have to accept it.
He has a penis, he has balls, he obviously looks like a man.
At that time, he was still using his male name, um, in various places, like on
Facebook, some other places.
I think on Twitter at that time he was, um, maybe using both names, um, but it,
there was, there was nothing to show me that he was a woman.
So, I said, yeah, it's him.
I figured out that it was him.
Um, and then I was permanently banned, yeah, and that was in November.
And that was it.
I appealed.
They were like, nope, sorry, hateful conduct.
Again, didn't tell me what rule I broke.
20 minutes after I was banned, I was banned on Friday night, I was at the bar,
I was like, what the fuck?
I'm trying to have fun!
Um, 20 minutes after I was banned, Pink News, which is like a, like, LGBT queer
news site, um, they posted an article saying, "Twitter has a new rule against
misgendering and deadnaming."
And I was like, oh, this is a really funny coincidence that this went out 20
minutes after I was banned for some rul