Taylor Lorenz Equates Nose Job with Removal of Genitals for Teens in Libs of TikTok Interview

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LORENZ: “I’m wondering why you feel like you’re qualified to be a sex educator when you have no background in that.”
RAICHIK: “I don’t want to be a sex educator. I just don’t want to give porn to kids in school.”
LORENZ: “I totally understand.”
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LORENZ: “I’m a huge Miami fan, I have to say.”
RAICHIK: “Yeah, it’s the best.”
LORENZ: “It’s kind of great. I know, like, it’s going to go away with climate change and stuff, but, honestly — “
RAICHIK: “Miami is just going to, like, disappear?”
LORENZ: “I don’t know. You know, a lot of bad weather.”
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LORENZ: “I grew up in a town where a lot of people, for their middle school graduation, when they got nose jobs. I knew some people got a boob job at age 14. And I guess I struggle to kind of understand the criticism when there’s certainly no criticism of that sort of thing, right? But then there’s criticism of this other sort of gender-affirming stuff. So — “
RAICHIK: “Are you comparing a boy being allowed to chop off his penis to a teenage girl getting a nose job?”
LORENZ: “Just to be absolutely clear, I don’t believe that 13-year-olds are able to make those sort of medical decisions.”
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RAICHIK: “Do you really keep your house on 85 degrees?”
LORENZ: “I do.”
RAICHIK: “Why?”
LORENZ: “I have a thing where I don’t get hot. No, I keep it crazy warm and I think people love to joke that I’m always that person.”
RAICHIK: “How old are you.”
LORENZ: “God, good question. I don’t put it out on the internet.”
RAICHIK: “Oh, on purpose?”
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RAICHIK: “You just accused me of wanting to ban books. What kind of books am I trying to ban?”
LORENZ: “You tell me.”
RAICHIK: “I’m not trying to ban anything.”