Arielle Scarcella’s YouTube channel is your go-to place online if you want glimpses of the grotesque reality of transgender madness. Usually she showcases excerpts from videos that trans people have posted online – sometimes “trans men,” but usually “trans women,” i.e., men in wigs and lipstick and dresses, who, more often than not, stare angrily into their cameras and emote about the injustices to which they’ve been subjected. Between these clips, Scarcella offers smart, no-nonsense commentary. On other occasions she actually goes out into the field with a camera and microphone and interviews these folks at various LGBTQ+ rallies, protests, and celebrations.
Scarcella is no bigot. She’s a lesbian – what you nowadays might call a “normal lesbian” – and she doesn’t mind those people who (in a way that seems downright old-fashioned now) happen to feel more comfortable dressing up as a member of the opposite sex, who actually put some effort into it, and who just want to be left alone to live their lives. Some of them are friends of hers. Some have been guests on her podcast.
Nonetheless, she draws the line at men in frocks who say that they’re every bit as much a woman as someone born with a vagina. Nor is she a fan of “trans women” who complain that if you’re a straight man who’s uninterested in having sex with them, you’re “transphobic.” In the same way, she has no use for all the drama, the “perpetual victimhood,” the obsession with pronouns invented fifteen minutes ago, that are part and parcel of the trans package. As for meaningless labels like “non-binary,” Scarcella has said: “These people are identifying as everything and nothing all at the same time, and have no idea who they are.”
Nor is Scarcella cool with “trans women” being permitted to play women’s sports or use women’s rest rooms or locker rooms. She hates that a lot of boys are being talked into thinking that they’re really girls just because they’re not macho, and that a lot of girls are being convinced that they’re really boys simply because they’re insufficiently girly. She’s quite properly horrified, moreover, by the parents, teachers, school therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, endocrinologists, and surgeons who are creepily eager to help teenagers, and even pre-teens, board the trans train.
“How did this all happen so fast,” Scarcella asked in one of her recent posts, “and what is the psychology behind it all?” She addresses this question time and again. Recently she recalled that when all this trans stuff first came along, she and others like her “were so libertarian about it,” so “super empathetic” and “super accommodating,” taking a live-and-let-live attitude,” trying, above all, to “be nice.”
But then, as she put it, “the goalposts started shifting.” You had to buy into the claim that any guy who said he was a woman was a woman. Scarcella admits that “in some cases” she’d accept these self-definitions, so long as the guys in question made at least something of an effort to pull off the opposite-sex thing. But now? Now all these self-identified transfolks — most of whom aren’t even really suffering from gender dysphoria at all but have been caught up in a craze and are out for attention — want to be “treated as special.” They’ve left reality behind. They don’t just want rights; they’re demanding that all the people around them reorder their entire understanding of the way the world works.
Scarcella isn’t having it. In fact there’s a lot that she’s not having. She’s sick of young men being told that they enjoy “male privilege” and are guilty of “toxic masculinity.” Scarcella isn’t a mother, but she deplores the fact that young women are being told nowadays that wanting to be a mother and homemaker is unworthy, and are instead being sold on “hookup culture” — which leads to them servicing armies of men in order to break world records and, later, “crying in their cars and calling themselves victims.” It’s also resulted, she points out, in “fractured families” in which children have no “strong role models.” Feminists, in short, have gone from “my body is a temple” to the notion that “being a slut is empowering.”
Simply put, Scarcella has got a lot of wise things to say, and she says them firmly, without hesitation or equivocation, but in an easy, conversational way.
I’ve been checking in on Scarcella every now and then for the last couple of years, but let’s just look at a couple of her most recent episodes. In the latest one, she shares a video of a gruesome-looking “trans woman” who’s absolutely delighted because some random guy just asked him for his phone number, apparently taking him for a call girl. Scarcella’s response: um, wasn’t it just yesterday that being taken for a hooker was something you were supposed to be offended by?
Then comes another video of another guy in drag who says that of course he’s a woman – he just made brownies! “This is as womanly as it gets,” the dude insists. “I wear dresses! I sleep with stuffed animals! Of course I’m a woman!”
Later, at some LGBTQ+ event, Scarcella meets a biological woman who says she identifies as a “femme-presenting trans gay man.” Got that? In other words, we’re talking here about an actual woman who’s attracted to actual men – that is, what we used to call a straight woman – but who feels some bizarre need to make herself sound more exotic.
A couple of weeks ago, Scarcella served up footage of her visit to Palm Beach Pride, where some ridiculous young gay guy in a flowery dress, hoop earrings, and purple stockings recognized her from YouTube and instructed her angrily that she wasn’t “part of the community” – because “the queer community,” you see, “is about acceptance”! (Except, apparently, acceptance of the likes of her.) Indeed, he called Scarcella “a piece of shit” because she’d voted for Trump. “We don’t allow hate, racism, bigotry!” he shriked, informing her that Trump is “genocidal” because he’s anti-Palestinian. To which Scarcella replied succinctly: “Go to Palestine.”
In another recent YouTube post, Scarcella highlighted detransitioners – people who’ve been talked into undergoing “gender-affirming care” only to snap out of it eventually and try to undo as much of the damage as possible. In one of those videos, a post-op “trans woman” tells us that his artificial “vagina” has proved to be useless and that his surgery didn’t allay his gender confusion one whit. “The dysphoria,” he affirmed, “is always there.”
Another “trans woman” who regrets her choices declared flatly that “transgenderism is a lie” and that “detransitioning” isn’t really the proper word because there wasn’t any real “transition” in the first place: what’s going on is that the individuals in question are “waking up to the reality of truth.” This detransitioner even praised Trump for “instilling what’s true” by (for example) removing “make-believe genders” from passports and the like.
About all of which Scarcella commented: “I truly do think we’re at a crossroads.” More and more people, she suspects, now understand that most “trans women” and “trans men” are really, as she put it, good old-fashioned “fags and dykes.” I think she’s right. I hope she’s right. And I respect the hell out of the guts, humility, and good humor that she brings to her coverage of this craziness.