A 14-year-old boy who thinks he's a girl was given estrogen and testosterone when he was 11 years old to make him a girl. His mom and the media are celebrating. Politically correct parents are now celebrating brutal and life-destroying child abuse, and our society and the despicable media are applauding with them. Ben Shapiro says it's time to open our hearts and accept our children for who they are, not for what gender they do or do not identify with. He also says that transgender kids need proper therapy and treatment, not mass delusion and pseudoscientific pseudoscience. And he points out that the only real societal construct is the stupid, idiotic, ascientific, anti-evidentiary notion that biological sex and gender are totally separate and aren't. And it's cruel for the media to promulgate this nonsense, especially when it does not have any impact on their kid. There are a lot of transgender kids who are independent, especially after watching YouTube videos about Jazz Jennings, a YouTube star who was a victim of mass delusion, and are actually attacking ISIS at this point in time, and his mother is the perpetrator. The Obama administration is befuddled, and doesn't know what to do about it, which is why they should be doing something about it. Ben Shapiro's full take on it here on The Ben Shapiro Show: Today on The Daily Show with Rachel Maddow and his new book, "Transgenderism Is a Mental Disorder?" Subscribe to his new show on Amazon Prime and get 10% off the first month! Subscribe on Audible Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices and get 20% off your first month free on Prime Video, too! Subscribe and become a supporter of his new podcast: Ben Shapiro is a Friend of the show? Connect with him on FB and Subscribe on Podchaser Learn more on his Insta-Friendship? Subscribe to Ben Shapiro on his podcast, and more! Learn about him on Insta: . Leave him on the pod is a review on Instafeed on Insta? and his podcast is or his profile on Instagraceday , and he'll be giving you a shoutout on in the show on The Viewer can be reached on , & his podcast is , he'll get a discount code at can he can help Ben Shapiro out on the air is a discount on .
00:00:00.000Politically correct parents are now celebrating brutal and life-destroying child abuse.
00:00:04.000Our society and our despicable media are celebrating with them.
00:00:08.000So I don't know if you've seen this video.
00:00:09.000It's going around of this woman named Erica Mason of Detroit and she's giving her 14 year old biological son Corey Mason a dose of estrogen because this 14 year old son thinks he is a girl on steroids.
00:00:21.000So, he's a transgender boy, right, and he thinks that he's a girl.
00:00:25.000Here's how ABC News headlined this dramatic act of brutality, this mother giving estrogen treatment to a biological boy, quote,
00:01:17.000So we have to actually stop a boy from developing into a man in order so that we can make sure that the boy develops into a woman.
00:01:25.000This is all biological nonsense, but this is how society now views this crap.
00:01:29.000Corey went back to public school looking more like a girl, and then Erika lectures all of us on proper parenting technique.
00:01:34.000Quote, I want them to open their hearts and accept their children for who they are, not for what gender they do or do not identify with.
00:01:41.000Their hearts do not change because their outer appearance does.
00:01:44.000We all just want to be loved and accepted by others.
00:01:46.000That's all any transgender child wants, to be loved and accepted fully by their parents.
00:01:51.000The idea behind this kind of garbage is that gender is completely a societal construct and if you want to save your transgender child, all you have to do is tolerate and of course make sure that your kid has hormone therapy at 11 and transgender surgery at 15 or 16 years old.
00:02:05.000Here's what transgender kids actually need.
00:02:31.000According to the Williams Institute at UCLA and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, quote, prevalence of suicide attempts is elevated among those who disclose to everyone that they are transgender or gender non-conforming.
00:02:43.00050% of people who tell all their friends that they're transgender try to commit suicide at some point.
00:02:47.00045% of transgender people who have undergone hormone therapy try suicide.
00:02:53.000So it turns out that only 41% of transgenders try suicide.
00:02:56.000That number goes up if you have hormone therapy.
00:02:59.000The same is true for people who undergo any form of surgery.
00:03:01.000Actually, suicide rates are the lowest among transgender people who don't want any form of treatment.
00:03:07.000And as for this ridiculous notion that it's because society is mean that transgender people commit suicide, this, too, is garbage.
00:03:14.000The reason that transgender people try to commit suicide is because they suffer from a horrible mental illness, and you have to feel horrible for them.
00:03:22.000For transgender people who say they occasionally are identified as transgender by others, in other words, they're walking around and somebody says, you're not really a woman, you're a dude, 41% have attempted suicide.
00:03:33.000And that's only for those who are operating occasionally.
00:03:36.000Among those who say that they are never identified as transgender.
00:03:50.000It's not the fault of a societal construct.
00:03:51.000The only real societal construct is the stupid, idiotic, ascientific, anti-evidentiary notion that biological sex and gender are totally separate and independent.
00:04:03.000And it's cruel for the media to promulgate this garbage, especially when it does have impact on kids.
00:04:07.000The fact is that this particular kid decided that he, was a she, after watching YouTube videos about Jazz Jennings, the YouTube star, transgender child.
00:04:16.000There are effects to a society that wishes to participate in mass delusion.
00:04:21.000Corey is a casualty, and his mother is the perpetrator.
00:04:25.000I'm Ben Shapiro, and this is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:04:36.000Today, at this hour, the Obama administration is befuddled.
00:04:39.000They just don't know what to do about the current situation in Syria.
00:04:43.000The Russians are currently not just attacking ISIL groups.
00:04:47.000They're actually mostly attacking non-ISIL groups at this point.
00:04:51.000They're attacking all the Free Syrian Army.
00:04:52.000And they're doing so, actually, with the help of the Iranians as well as Hezbollah.
00:04:57.000So basically, Vladimir Putin in Russia is doing what Stalin has sought to do for most of his career, which was take over the Middle East.
00:05:03.000Stalin in 1945, 1946, he actually tried to take over Turkey and Iran.
00:05:07.000That ended up actually resulting in the Truman Doctrine.
00:05:10.000The idea that Truman put forth that the United States would defend democracy wherever it sprung up and fight against communism, and obviously that had effects in Korea as well as Vietnam.
00:06:43.000And you can hear the Obama administration struggling for a response.
00:06:46.000They really don't know what to do here, because when you're this weak, and when you think that the world is just gonna run itself, this is what happens.
00:06:53.000Secretary of State John Kerry, who, unfortunately, when he fell off that bicycle back in Geneva several months ago, his head-smacking incident didn't knock some sense into him.
00:07:03.000Instead, he actually said that he welcomes Russia's help in Syria.
00:07:07.000Again, again, important to understand, important to understand, that Russia is currently bombing the people that we sent money to.
00:09:07.000He said that, you know, Vladimir Putin has to understand that Assad is what's blocking the solution, but Kerry has no ability to stand up to Putin or Assad, because the fact is that all Putin is involved in here is not fighting ISIL or fighting ISIS.
00:09:20.000The only thing that Putin is involved in here is holding up
00:09:27.000And again, this only happens, the only reason this happens is because President Obama left a major gap and Vladimir Putin filled it.
00:09:33.000Now, Stalin was not able to take over the Middle East because Truman said no.
00:09:37.000Putin, with a much weaker Soviet Union, he's trying to reconstitute the Soviet Union, a much weaker stance, Putin is now able to conquer vast swaths of the Middle East, or at least have his allies do so, because Barack Obama is weak.
00:09:48.000You all, of course, remember in 2012 when Barack Obama drew his red line.
00:09:53.000President Obama talking about his red line in 2012.
00:10:00.000I have at this point not ordered military engagement in the situation, but the point that you made about chemical and biological weapons is critical.
00:10:13.000That's an issue that doesn't just concern Syria.
00:10:15.000It concerns our close allies in the region, including Israel.
00:10:57.000Vladimir Putin is now using that red line in the middle of the desert as an airstrip for his various bombers, which he is using against United States forces.
00:11:04.000Now, the real question becomes, why should we care about any of this?
00:11:07.000Why should we care that Putin is taking over the Middle East?
00:11:09.000Why should we care that Iran is taking over half of Iraq?
00:11:21.000Because obviously, not every place there's a human rights violation does the United States have an interest in intervening.
00:11:27.000However, that being said, clearly if we proclaim that we are supposed to be a pro-human rights country, then being involved in making promises to not one but two separate groups of people, really three, we made promises to the Kurds, we made promises to the Iraqis, and we made promises to the Syrians, that if they were to cooperate with us, they would not be targeted by the Assad regime or by Iran or by ISIS.
00:11:48.000And then allowing all of them to be blown out of the water, that's a pretty big betrayal.
00:11:52.000As far as this being a strategically important region, of course it's a strategically important region.
00:11:56.000For all of the talk by Al Gore and his magical green energy about how it's going to cure the world, the fact is we are still an oil and natural gas-driven society.
00:12:05.000We will continue to be a carbon-based fuels-driven society because carbon-based fuels are efficient and a disproportionate amount of carbon-based fuel comes from this particular region of the world.
00:12:15.000Plus, the fact is terrorism that happens over there
00:12:19.000But what's amazing is the Obama administration, which really only has one obligation, to keep us safe and to advance American interests, they're now warning the Russians.
00:12:26.000They're warning the Russians that the Russians should be careful in Syria.
00:12:31.000Seriously, this is their new response.
00:12:33.000Their new response is not that the Russians ought to stop what they're doing because they're siding with the bad guys, or that they should stop bombing the good guys, or the Free Syrian Army in this particular case, even though there are problems with the Free Syrian Army.
00:12:44.000That's not the argument the Obama administration is pushing.
00:12:46.000The argument that they are now pushing is that Russia should be careful because if they're not careful, they might turn into a terribly evil country like the United States under George W. Bush.
00:12:55.000Josh Earnest at the White House actually said that Russia being in Syria is like the United States being in Iraq.
00:13:00.000This is how pernicious and nasty and venal this administration is, that the only
00:13:09.000The only similar situation that they can bring to mind in terms of the Russians utilizing a dictator to crush his own population is the United States overthrowing a dictator in Iraq.
00:13:19.000Here is Josh Earnest at the White House blaming George W. Bush for everything because, of course, here was the line of policy.
00:13:24.000George W. Bush invades Iraq, stabilizes Iraq.
00:13:27.000Barack Obama comes in, destroys our stability in Iraq.
00:13:30.000ISIS comes in because Obama destroyed that stability.
00:13:33.000And now Syria is in chaos because of Obama.
00:13:36.000But really, it's George W. Bush's fault, you see, for invading Iraq in the first place.
00:13:40.000Here's Josh Earnest at the White House making a fool of himself, as he often does.
00:13:44.000It means that Russia's not going to be successful in imposing a military solution inside of Syria.
00:13:48.000And they'll be no more successful in that regard than the United States was in imposing a military solution in Iraq in the last decade.
00:13:54.000And certainly no more successful than Russian efforts to impose a military solution on Afghanistan.
00:14:18.000Okay, the United States went in to overthrow Saddam Hussein.
00:14:21.000If Saddam Hussein had invited us in to crush his own people, that would be like what's going on in Syria right now.
00:14:25.000What's going on in Syria right now, folks, is that Vladimir Putin has been invited in by Bashar Assad.
00:14:30.000Bashar Assad wants him there to do his dirty work.
00:14:33.000That is the purpose of Vladimir Putin being in Russia.
00:14:37.000And here's where this all goes in the end.
00:14:40.000The Free Syrian Army will be eliminated.
00:14:42.000Russia has taken over the airspace over Syria.
00:14:44.000We're not going to reimpose air restrictions on Russian forces because we're not willing to go to war with Russia and Putin knows that he has a sucker in the White House and so he can get away with anything that he wants to get away with.
00:14:54.000So Russia will basically end up conquering Syria with Assad on the one hand and Iran coming in from the east on the other.
00:15:11.000Putin has already moved on Georgia under George W. Bush.
00:15:14.000I promise you, the next step for Vladimir Putin is going to be moving against Kazakhstan in the south, going after its oil-rich regions, or, more importantly, before Obama leaves office, Vladimir Putin, who is the greatest Russian leader, the most powerful Russian leader since Stalin,
00:15:30.000The proof is in the pudding because of what he's been able to accomplish.
00:15:34.000And this will be the final crowning achievement of Vladimir Putin's tenure and President Obama's fecklessness, is when Vladimir Putin goes into Latvia or Estonia or Lithuania, a place with a heavy Russian population but is a member of NATO, and NATO does nothing.
00:15:47.000Because they say it's just Russia reconsolidating ethnic Russians into her territory.
00:15:51.000If NATO dies, that would be the greatest victory for Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union.
00:16:01.000A world without a powerful United States is not a world that is multipolar.
00:16:06.000A world without a powerful United States, that gap will be filled by someone.
00:16:10.000In this particular case, it's being filled by Vladimir Putin.
00:16:13.000In the East, it's being filled by the Chinese.
00:16:15.000And that makes the world a worse place, because Vladimir Putin is a brutal dictator, not only to his own people, but more importantly, to all of the nations that he is currently invading, or dictators with whom he is allying, whether it's in Syria or Iran.
00:16:28.000We're about to enter some very dark days, and with a president this cowardly—and it's not even cowardice—with a president this corrupt in his moral thinking.
00:16:37.000It's very difficult to see who's going to stop Vladimir Putin at this point.
00:17:02.000I promise you, Americans will die both in the Middle East and here at home.
00:17:05.000If the United States continues to reduce its presence around the world, if we continue to draw into ourselves, and if we continue this nonsensical fecklessness that you see from John Kerry, who must be one of the five stupidest people on the planet if he actually believes the garbage that he's spewing at the United Nations.