Hot topics, the news of the day, in depth interviews, and a whole lot more. It's The Outlaws Radio Show. Subscribe to the show on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, or wherever you get your podcasts. Today. That's out Laws, The Outlaws Radio Show, an FCB podcast. This is the FCB Podcast Network. This is Pillow Talk with Ellie Michelle on the FCB Podcast Network. Welcome back to another episode of Talk with Eli Michelle. I am your host, Ellie Michelle. If you guys hear my microphone, I'm sorry. I am using a different microphone this morning and it catches everything. So it's gonna We're just gonna roll with it. But before I get started, I hope your holidays are filled with so much joy and love and family and making memories. After all, you know, family is the most important. You know, if some people don't have a good relationship with their family, I hope you do enjoy it with your friends and people that you consider family. And with that, we are going to roll right into my topics for today. Okay, so we watched something incredibly important happen. A woman named Tish Heyman, a black woman, a lesbian, and someone who has lived in the LGBTQ community her entire life, stood up and said what millions of women are scared to say out loud. She spoke about women's safety and women's spaces. This conversation was sparked after she confronted a situation at a Beverly Hills gym formerly under gold Gym's Gold's Gym now Eos Fitness, where a biological man identified you know, aified identifying as a transgender was not passable, entered the women's soccer room and Tish stood her ground. Good for her. By the way, if you ever hear this, you are a rock star. She said what needed to be said. This was this is a problem. Women are uncomfortable and this is not safe. And after she spoke up, she was kicked out. Now I wanted to I want to talk about that man for a minute. He is actually originally from Ohio and he has taken the identity of his ex wife. His ex wife was brutally attacked by him. He broke her jaw, his wife's jaw, Alexis, and she had to have a complete reconstruction surgery. So he took off from Ohio and moved himself to Beverly Hills, and we are now in current time speaking of history, and you know, we need to pause and remember something. Women fought for centuries for private, protected spaces. We fought for the right to vote, We fought for the right to work, We fought to the right to learn, we have bodily autonomy and to be safe. We fought for protections against harassment, exploitation, and assault, often alone, often ignored, and part of that fight included the right for women only spaces where we could be physically vulnerable without fear. Locker rooms, bathrooms, changing areas, shelters. These spaces weren't created out of discrimination, okay, they were created out of necessity, out of trauma, and out of the deep need for safety us women. We earned these protections with generations of struggle. We're not giving up. So people like tisses so extremely important in today's society because we're heading down like a slippery slope. But today those boundaries are being erased, almost overnight. Women are being told if you're not comfortable, you're the bigot. If you want privacy, there's something wrong with you. If you don't want a biological male undressing next to you, you're hateful. No, absolutely not we are so backwards, you guys. It's so backwards nowadays. It's like we are standing up to men and we're being called the bigots. And I know this individual identifies as a woman, but he is not passable. Women should never be punished or shamed for protecting themselves. Women should never be guilt tripped for wanting privacy, and women should never have their instincts dismissed, instincts that have kept us alive for generations. Policies that ignore biology put only one group at risk, women, so the non passable individuals in women's spaces. We need honesty in this conversation. When someone who is visibly physically male, who enters a women's locker room, no matter what they identify as, it causes discomfort, fear, and confusion for women, especially especially our youth, our young girls. Identity is not the issue here. Female vulnerability is Women undressed in these spaces, women shower in these spaces, women are exposed in these spaces. This is not about someone's pronouns. This is about the physical presence of a male body in a female only area, a place where women are at the most vulnerable. And now women who speak up are being silenced or punished exactly what happened to tisheymen, now before gets all tiffy, get their pennies in a bunch. I am a proud ally. I wanted to make something extremely clear because people love to twist this conversation and love to twist my words. I am a proud ally of the trans community. I support adults living as themselves, expressing who they are, and being treated with respect. If you want a transition, I support you. I will go with you and hold your hand. I will go to the surgery with you and hold your hand. If you want to identify a certain way, I support you. If you want to live really, I support you. But supporting someone doesn't mean sacrificing the safety of my daughters, my nieces, my sisters, or myself. Being an ally does not require abandoning common sense. Being an ally does not require pretending biologic biology disappears. Being an ally does not require letting down the guard women were taught to have for survival. And here's the uncomfortable truth. Some people are taking advantage of these policies. Some individuals are using identity as a shield to gain access to women's spaces. Some are entering these spaces with harmful intentions. Let's be completely honest here, and when you knowingly ignore women's boundaries, their comfort, their rights, that is bigotry, that is disrespect, that is erasing everything women fought for across hundreds of years. This issue is not about identity. It's about safety, boundaries and respect for biological reality. Even women who even women have been transitioning for years, who are absolutely stickney, are speaking out. They are saying this is wrong. This is if you are not passable, do not go into that space. Do not go into that space. We don't do not. So you have to be listening. And then they say, you know, we respect women so much, and then it's like people are trying to erase us. I would I'm not. I refuse to let them erase you, or anyone erase you. You are valid and you are so important in this world. And it's so such a shame that people are taking advantage of such a such such an incredible group of people in the real stakes. Let's be very honest. This conversation is not about bathrooms in locker rooms. This is about whether women are allowed to draw lines at all. If we can't say no, in a locker room. Where can we say no, If our boundaries here don't man, what boundaries ever will. If women's voices are ignored in the spaces where we are the most vulnerable, what does that mean for our daughter's futures? Women's rights cannot be optional. Women's rights cannot be optional, They cannot be conditional. They cannot be overwritten by social pressure or political fear. What Tishchymen did was brave. What what she said, She said what millions of women are thinking. She stood up for not just herself, but for all of us. And I try, I'm you know, in the media has been twisting her. And she even went to her lawmakers, and I see how how they just ignored her. They just dismissed her. And then the whole crow went crazy because she, you know, she's saying that these men who are dressing up as women are invading our spaces. And I pause to think, because these lawmakers as she went to, were white men. So I feel like, since she is a black lesbian woman, she has the disadvantage obviously, and unfortunately, but I feel as if they have completely ignored her because of the color of her skin and what she in who she loves internally, you know. But now it's our turn. We must speak up. We must refuse to be silent, to be silenced. We must protect the spaces women fought generations to secure. We must demand policies rooted in biology, reality and actual safety, not ideology, because women's rights are not for debate. Women's safety is not negotiable, and we will not lose the protections that generations of women fought, bled and sacrificed for, not now, not ever, not on our watch. And speaking of women and how we sacrifice, you know, there was a shocking incident on the cell side of Chicago that has triggered outrage, concern, and calls for serious action. A mother, her name is Corshwanda Hadter, thirty three, and her two children were brutally attacked by a group of youths while walking home from school. The attack was captured on video and now is going viral today. I wanted to just kind of dig into that, the issues behind it, the response from the city and the school system, and why this case matters for communities everywhere. She's a black woman. Another topic that I wanted to bring to light is the you know, black women are so incredibly ignored, So we're just going to dive right into it. On Monday afternoon, around three ten, hater hat her and her nine year old son and younger daughter were walking home from school in the one hundred and six one oh six ten six hundred block of South Bensley Avenue in the South Daring neighborhood of Chicago. According to the mother's statement, a group of children followed them, taunted and chased them, and then ultimately violent violently attacked them. She says, they followed us all the way up here. They hit my son first, dragged him in the grass, and pulled her baby's hair. Video footage shows the mother being pushed to the ground, repeatedly punched and kicked as she tried to shield her children. Her mother was trying to protect her children, and that kind of brings a tear to my eye because I couldn't imagine. The nine year old was taken to the hospital in serious conditions and so was mom. The daughter's status is less clear, but she was present. No arrests have been made at the time of reporting. This isn't an isolated one time outbursts. Reports show that the same group of youth have been terrorizing another family for months, including physically assaulting a twenty one year old autistic man and vandalizing the home. Meanwhile, the victim's son had been bullied at Orville T. Bright Elementary School for over two years, and the mother says the school failed to act. City officials pointed out that the children committing serious crimes like this is quote unacceptable and the sign of a deeper signs that a deeper interventions are needed, both in terms of school discipline and community supports. Additionally, the incident highlights concerns about safety, passage to and from school, accountability for youth violence, and the rule of local institutions, and protecting both students and family. The Chicago the Police Department said that they were investigating. The Chicago Public Schools issued a statement saying they were quote horrified and are collaborating with city agencies to support the family. City leaders, including Brandon Johnson, he is the Mayor of Chicago, called that the video is quote good wrenching, and said that this behavior must not be normalized in the neighborhood. There was a gathering Tuesday morning outside of the school, parents and residents demanding accountability and safety conditions for children walking. This case resonates for several reasons. It shows that children are both victims and perpetrators in series violence and our violence and our systems may not be equipped to handle that ladder. It raises questions about school safety, bullying prevention, and what happens when repeated complaints go unheeded. It underscores that parents and families expecting to walk their children safely to and from school can themselves be told targets. From a specific perspective, it touches on community responsibility. Neighbors said that this group of kids have been pretty much They have been pretty much raising themselves and lacked accountability. For you, the listener, it's a reminder that community neighborhood safety isn't just about policying policing. It's about schools, families, neighborhood culture and pathways for youth behavior. As the investigation continues and the family recovers, the key questions will remain. Will the perpetrators be held accountable? Will the school take meaningful steps to protect students? Will the community rally not in just outrage, what in prevention? Because the cost of inaction may be far higher than what we like to imagine that's the issue with what's going on in our society is these broken homes. These kids are out here, you know, clickbaiting and thinking it's cool to be this these thugs and and and then they see these adults, especially in Chicago, who are just getting slapped on the wrist when they do something incredibly horrible. This isn't this isn't new. This happens. And it's because places like Chicago who have been demanding do you follow in the police, and then glorifying criminals, thinking oh, we're okay, We're okay, we don't need the police. But then these kids see that clips go viral of these criminals violently violently hurting women and kids and in school, and then and then they think it's oh, yeah, we can go in to school, we can disrespect our teachers, we can disrespect these parents. We don't care, we don't care. No, these kids need parents. They don't need TikTok raising them. They don't need these social media is raising them. They need their parents. So shame on the parents that are letting these kids run wild. Shame on the school for not addressing the bullying issue. We need, we need something, So much better for these for these kids. There needs to be more after school facilities, more community based get togethers for these kids to be busy. They're not busy. They are so bored and and it have no sense of They don't have anybody to look up to. They see thugs, they see these gangs, and they think that's the way of life, and then they're going to create these violent Then they're going to do these violent, vile things to these to these people in the community and the entire country. But before I get too deep into that, I wanted to thank you guys for joining me. Please subscribe, follow for updates, and please please don't forget to subscribe to the podcast. 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