Transgender man Meredith Russo was forced to use the women's bathroom at work even though he was born a woman. He explains why he felt he should have been able to go to the ladies' bathroom, and why it was so bad that he stopped going to the bathroom at all. But why did he go to management about it? And why did the company continue to employ him, even though it was clear that he should be able to pee in the ladies room? And why is it that only Meredith s feelings matter? Ben Shapiro explains why women are the only ones with the right to have their own bathroom and why men are the ones who need to get used to the idea that a woman in a dress walks into a women s bathroom. Plus, he explains why men should be expected not to do a double take when a man in a woman s uniform walks into the women s room. And why women should not have to deal with it the same way other people do when they see a guy in their own gender. Ben Shapiro: Only Meredith's feelings matter, and women are on their own, not the other way around! All that and more on this episode of The Ben Shapiro Show, wherever you get your news and opinions from The Vaunted Mailbag. Subscribe to the show to get immediate access to all the latest breaking news and analysis, including the latest in politics, economics, culture, entertainment, and politics. The ultimate, real world reporting and everything else. Enjoy! - Ben Shapiro Subscribe, comment and let us know what you think about it! Subscribe and share it on your social media accounts and what you're listening to the Ben Shapiro is listening to! and what s going to be your favorite thing you're getting in your life right now! Tweet Ben Shapiro thinks about it on the next episode of the Vaunted Vaunted mailbag? on the or your thoughts on it? and do you agree with Ben Shapiro's take on the latest episode? or don t miss it on this or not? ? to Ben Shapiro s Vaunted on this and other things that he's listening to this week's Vaunted female anatomy and more! on his latest episode of . Insta: Thanks for listening, Ben Shapiro and Andrew Klaven's PUNIMES - vaunted, and he's got a beautiful punim?
00:00:00.000On Tuesday, the New York Times ran an essay by transgender woman Meredith Russo, a person who was born a man, about how terrible it feels to have to use a bathroom corresponding to his birth gender.
00:00:10.000Russo writes about how he felt he should be able to use the female restroom at work despite his penis.
00:01:11.000First off, half of high school students avoid going to the bathroom because they don't like the risks they run in going to the bathroom at high schools.
00:01:35.000If so, why didn't he go to management?
00:01:37.000And if the company was so terribly discriminatory, why did it continue to employ him despite his transgenderism?
00:01:43.000But most importantly, Meredith feels he should have been able to saunter on over to the ladies' bathroom where he would have been treated with more dignity.
00:01:51.000Except, presumably, women wouldn't feel any better about seeing Meredith there than men did.
00:01:55.000Indeed, some women would feel a lot more threatened.
00:01:58.000If Meredith didn't like being sneered at by men who saw him as a mentally ill person, Meredith probably wouldn't like it much more when women shied away from him in the women's room.
00:02:07.000But the notion here in the end is that only Meredith's feelings matter.
00:02:11.000Men must be expected not to do a double take when a dude in a dress walks into a bathroom.
00:02:15.000Women must be expected to get used to men in dresses walking into their bathrooms.
00:02:19.000Reality must always adjust to the transgender person.
00:02:22.000The transgender person must never adjust to reality.
00:02:26.000In the end, happy ending, Meredith ended up getting a book contract to write about transgenderism, enabling him to use the bathroom at home.
00:02:52.000Meredith doesn't provide any evidence or account of being physically attacked by other men.
00:02:55.000This would be a felony in most jurisdictions, and perhaps even a federal hate crime.
00:02:59.000Meredith doesn't explain why, at the risk of jailing or being held suspect for sexual harassment, he would continue to try to pee next to the ladies.
00:03:07.000Most of all, Meredith doesn't explain why it's incumbent on everyone in society to embrace the lie that men are women, indoctrinate their children in that same damaging lie, and avoid treating serious mental illness, all to avoid making a few individuals uncomfortable.
00:03:21.000But Meredith is the only person we're supposed to care about.
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00:04:23.000Okay, so, yesterday we talked about the left trolling the right into oblivion.
00:04:26.000Today, it's pretty clear why people are voting for Donald Trump.
00:04:30.000And the reason a lot of people are voting for Donald Trump, and I have sympathies for this, the reason a lot of people are voting for Donald Trump or backing Donald Trump is because the people who oppose Donald Trump on the left are out of their damn minds.
00:04:42.000Out of their gourds, they're crazy, they're chaotic, and they're trying to recreate a really terrible period in American history that they still celebrate as something wonderful.
00:04:52.000Yesterday Trump is speaking in Albuquerque, New Mexico and a bunch of anti-Trump protesters show up and here is what it looked like.
00:05:20.000Okay, so what you can see happening here is lines of cops and people burning things and people with masks setting things on fire.
00:05:27.000Now they're taking objects on fire and throwing them at the cops.
00:05:30.000It's not full-scale furnace in here, but it ain't good.
00:05:38.000Screaming and yelling is pretty normal, but people there with Mexican flags.
00:05:43.000And then here's another piece of tape.
00:05:44.000A bunch of protesters holding Mexican flags, storming the barricades that are supposed to protect the people going to this Trump rally from all of the protesters.
00:05:53.000And you can see signs in the crowd that say things like, no racist, fascist pigs.
00:05:57.000And you can see Mexican flags in the crowd.
00:06:52.000There we see some protesters walking and jumping on police cars, some applauding there, and then running down the street as the police presumably started pursuing them.
00:07:09.000And CNN correspondent Dan Simon was reporting from the scene, and here's what he saw.
00:07:28.000I don't know if this is a flash grenade that police have just set off or if this is from the protesters, but you can see that things now are steadily eroding.
00:07:38.000We're going to move back a little bit, Wolf.
00:09:58.000It was to stop Trump's hate with love.
00:10:01.000And then quickly, once the Trump supporters started coming in, and you see a Trump supporter, you know...
00:10:10.000Go ahead, I know we've got a lot of... You know, you're useless, go to school, get a job.
00:10:18.000When I went there with my brother and four of my friends who work 40 hours a week while going to school, and this is the idea they have of us because they're fed this idea by Trump.
00:10:29.000Honestly, I don't blame them because in my opinion, Trump is a narcissistic, powerful, rich, sociopathic person.
00:10:36.000And it's easy for him to use their fears to manipulate them.
00:10:43.000Okay, so in other words, what she's saying is they said that we should go get a job and find something better to do with our time.
00:12:20.000People were getting pushed around in the crowd.
00:12:22.000It was pretty much as bad as this, what you're watching here.
00:12:24.000I mean, some people in the room right now were there, and they understand how bad it was.
00:12:28.000Was that my fault, or was it the fault of the protesters and the administration for letting it go forward, and the fault of the professors for incentivizing it?
00:12:36.000But Chris Matthews, he's not that bad.
00:14:24.000Okay, so it gets pretty radical and weird.
00:14:26.000So for people who can't see what's going on, Milo is sitting up there on the right, and Milo, as this tour has gone on, has started wearing more stereotypically gay outfits each and every outing.
00:14:41.000And he's sitting up there in kind of a cut-off t-shirt wearing a pearl
00:15:17.000And she's up there, and apparently, as this event went on, like 15 of the Black Lives Matter people crowd the stage, start screaming, take out whistles, are whistling into the microphones.
00:15:27.000And the security, who were mandated by the school, they're just sitting to the side letting all of this happen.
00:15:31.000So very much like what happened at Cal State LA.
00:15:34.000Except maybe significantly less violent, but still really bad stuff.
00:16:57.000This is the period when they became who they were and they see themselves as the great heroes of this period.
00:17:02.000If you talk to them about the 60s, most Americans think of the 60s as a time of chaos and turmoil and tragedy, the killing of major figures like MLK, the destruction of the American military in the Vietnam War, the destruction of the American traditional lifestyle on the shoals of feminism and the gay rights movement.
00:17:19.000The destruction of traditional notions of making your way in the world on the heels of the government welfare system.
00:17:25.000All of this has tremendously negative ramifications for America, including the rise of single motherhood and the rise of crime and the destruction of the notion America is here to do good in the world and the destruction of the concept of America in our own heads, which we'll get to a little bit later.
00:17:40.000The left sees this as a great period, because this was the period when they were finally able to break free of the restraints of traditional Americanism, and they love it.
00:17:48.000So we need to flash back to 1968 and understand Democrats today are trying, they're trying to recreate 1968, the period when they felt most alive, the period when they felt most useful, and they've taught their kids and their grandkids, or somebody else's kids and grandkids most likely, that this was a great period, and if you really want to do something meaningful with your life, it has to be just like 1968.
00:19:03.000Understand, Detroit at this time was not a poor city.
00:19:06.000Detroit in 1967 was maybe the best place in America for black people to live.
00:19:10.000Seriously, like there are surveys of this.
00:19:12.000Black people had the highest per capita income anywhere in America in Detroit.
00:19:15.000They rioted anyway because the left was saying that there was too much racial animus for that ever to be bridged over with normal movement.
00:19:23.000So this is what it looked like in Detroit in 1967 and you'll see it looks very much like Ferguson today or Baltimore today.
00:19:29.000Both places that President Obama has been pushing as sort of forerunners and at the forefront of the American civil rights movement.
00:19:35.000Here's what it looked like back in 1967.
00:19:39.0001967 was the third summer of the burning and looting of the Black Death.
00:20:32.000And then they go right into people robbing stores.
00:20:34.000Okay, robbing stores has nothing to do with protesting police brutality.
00:20:37.000But for the left, they look at Ferguson and Baltimore, they say exactly the same things now, they said back in 1967 when this was happening.
00:20:46.000Which is why they're constantly trying to say, Republicans want to take us back to the 50s, because then they can say, when we want to go back to 68, well, at least 68 was after 50, right?
00:20:56.000In order to get back to 1968, they have to go back before 1968, and then say, that's where we are, and now we need a 1968-type corrective for that.
00:21:54.000And this is typical on college campuses, so we can stop that.
00:21:57.000So, the left is seeking to recreate all of this.
00:22:00.000Note for note, they're seeking to recreate this.
00:22:02.000They want the riots at the convention again because it makes them feel young and special.
00:22:06.000And they want the riots in the inner cities because it makes them feel racially justified.
00:22:10.000And they want the riots on campus because it makes them feel that they're striking back against some sort of intellectual authority.
00:22:16.000And so the big question is, at least in the 1960s, you could argue bad crap was happening.
00:22:20.000Right, I mean, the Vietnam War was in full swing.
00:22:22.000Whether you liked it or didn't like it, it was at least controversial.
00:22:25.000You could at least argue that there was a legacy of racism that had ended, or at least they were trying to end, like three years before.
00:22:31.000I mean, when you're having a race riot in 1967, and the Civil Rights Act of 64 is only a couple years old, you can at least say, okay, Jim Crow is still, they're still fighting Jim Crow.
00:22:39.000Okay, maybe, although not in Detroit, obviously, because there was no Jim Crow in Detroit.
00:22:44.000When you say on college campuses, that was a lot less justified, generally, because there wasn't really anything wrong with the college campuses.
00:23:06.000It's why Trump is sucking people in on the right the same way that Bernie Sanders is sucking people in on the left.
00:23:11.000Everybody, young and old, wants to feel like they're part of a movement, but this is particularly true of young people in their first flush of vigor who feel like, okay, now we can change the world if we just stand together, who feel like
00:23:23.000Controlling the problems of the world is only us getting together, us unifying away.
00:23:28.000If we just held hands and sang Kumbaya, everything would be all better.
00:23:32.000This goes all the way back to the beginning.
00:23:34.000I mean, this goes all the way back to the beginning of time, and it's been true forever.
00:23:37.000George Orwell wrote this about the Nazi movement in 1940.
00:23:42.000He was talking about why young people fall into the trap of following Hitler.
00:23:44.000He said, Nearly all Western thought since the last war, certainly all progressive thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease,
00:23:54.000In such a view of life, there is no room, for instance, for patriotism and the military virtues.
00:23:59.000Hitler, because in his own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working hours, hygiene, birth control, and, in general, common sense.
00:24:10.000They also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags, and loyalty parades.
00:25:15.000He's already been unpopular enough in 1960 to come off of the Eisenhower presidency and lose to John F. Kennedy.
00:25:21.000So he lost to John F. Kennedy, he disappeared from politics, kind of like Newt Gingrich for a while, and then he came back in 1968 and he wins the nomination.
00:25:29.000So you have this wildly unpopular Republican with no sense of real kindness about him.
00:25:37.000A very harsh guy, Nixon, at least in the public eye.
00:25:40.000And you have Nixon out there, and he's fighting against the Democrats who are tearing apart the country, and he looks like a safe, good alternative.
00:25:48.000Donald Trump is not a very stable individual, just generally speaking, but when you put him up next to these folks, he looks a lot more stable.
00:25:55.000You put him up next to the people who are throwing rocks and bottles at the cops, and he's saying, I stand with the cops?
00:26:00.000And people say, okay, okay, and this is what you see from Trump.
00:26:05.000So Donald Trump, he's slamming the thugs who are at the rally.
00:26:08.000He said, So put aside the typical Trumpian syntax here.
00:26:21.000What these protesters are doing for Trump is justifying everything that he says.
00:26:24.000So he says that Mexico is shipping in criminals, so the response of people who are against his immigration policy are to fly the Mexican flag while throwing bottles and rocks at the cops.
00:26:40.000Now Trump continued along these lines.
00:26:42.000He says that the war veterans, there are a bunch of war veterans apparently who showed up to protest Trump, and he said these people were all paid by Hillary Clinton.
00:26:49.000Yesterday, we had pickets in front of Trump Tower, and they were vets.
00:26:55.000Not a lot of them, very few, just so you understand.
00:28:57.000So Trump has a surrogate out there, and his surrogate is out there making the case that Hillary isn't fit because even Bill can't stand Hillary.
00:29:06.000I've heard people say, I don't know who to choose, Trump or Hillary.
00:30:17.000But Ed Rendell, one of Hillary Clinton's biggest supporters, said that half the women in the United States, something to this effect, half the women in the United States are ugly.
00:31:22.000So I got a couple emails last night, and this isn't the mailbag, but I got a couple emails saying exactly the same thing.
00:31:28.000So, this guy named Mitchell, he writes to me, says, I'm a conservative, but the Milo Yiannopoulos incident in Tepal, we played the tape a few minutes ago, was the straw that broke the camel's back.
00:31:48.000The right needs to get it beat into their heads that this is a war.
00:31:51.000That's why conservatism is going to fail, because it isn't willing to get in the gutter and do what is necessary to preserve its way of life.
00:32:35.000The problem is people have identified civility with conservatism for so long, because there's this sort of Russell Kirk idea as a philosopher, who says that conservatism is essentially about conserving civility and the social fabric, as opposed to conserving small government and basic conservative philosophy.
00:32:52.000When you believe that, of course you think conservatism fails and you just go for the guy who's in a rusty knife fight.
00:32:57.000Got this one from Dustin, same sort of notion.
00:32:59.000I'm now at the point where I feel I must vote for Trump.
00:33:21.000It's taking a little while, but I am working on the idea of consolidating a movement here, which is why I suggest you subscribe, and also email me directly at bshapiro at dailywire.com.
00:33:51.000The one thing I like about Trump is that he will fight them.
00:33:53.000The one problem I have with Trump, and this has been true from the very start,
00:33:56.000Is that Donald Trump is not just an imperfect vessel, he is a broken vessel.
00:34:00.000So the same Donald Trump who's fighting the left does stuff like this.
00:34:03.000So, it came out, Donald Trump was asked, he's been saying for a long time that he gave a bunch of money to the veterans, right?
00:34:12.000You remember a few months ago, he was supposed to be part of a Fox News debate with Megyn Kelly, he copped out on it and then he did his event to raise money for the veterans and he invited Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum and all the rest of the loser crew.
00:34:24.000And he goes there and he supposedly raises $6 million.
00:34:27.000And people have been asking ever since, well, where did that $6 million go?
00:34:31.000Like, can you show us proof that it actually went to veterans charities?
00:34:34.000Well, as one Washington Post reporter, Trump said he had pledged $1 million to a veterans charity.
00:34:39.000This one Washington Post reporter stayed on it, doggedly stayed on it, stayed on it.
00:34:43.000And finally, this week, this week, like three months after this happened, Trump finally was shamed into signing a $1 million check to the veterans.
00:35:09.000Nobody that we talked to that had gotten donations out of this effort had gotten them from Trump.
00:35:13.000Trump wrote a couple of sort of angry, critical tweets about our reporting called it dishonest, disgraceful.
00:35:19.000At the same time, last night, Trump actually called up somebody, a charity that he had actually donated to before, and in one fell swoop gave a million dollars.
00:35:27.000One call, one million dollars to one charity.
00:35:29.000So it turned out that for almost four months, when Trump had said he'd given his million, even as late as Friday when his campaign said, yes, he's definitely given the money away, he hadn't actually given anything away.
00:35:38.000It was only our questions, my tweets, my efforts to pressure Trump that seemed to have produced this gift.
00:35:47.000Now, I asked Trump today when he called, are you sure you didn't give the money now because we were asking about it?
00:35:56.000I had no obligation to do anything or to do so, and I get nothing but bad press from the dishonest media.
00:36:03.000Trump's campaign has promised to distribute the remaining money, however much they raise, 5.5 million, 4.5, 6, whatever the remainder is that hasn't been given away, and I found about 3.1 million that's already been given away, now 4.1 million with Trump.
00:36:16.000Okay, so they had to pry the money out of Trump's grubby little hands, right?
00:36:20.000So this is why I say, like, you want to protest these bad people?
00:36:37.000Do it by all means, but find somebody who's a better vessel than Trump, because when you sign up for Trump, you're signing up for Trump, along with all that entails.
00:36:44.000I mean, you look at that video of him and he's complaining about, he's a nasty guy for asking me to actually turn over the- I didn't have any obligation to turn over that money.
00:36:51.000You've been lying for months that you already did.
00:36:54.000So you did a little bit, and when you tell the veterans you're gonna give them a million dollars and then you jack the veterans, yeah, you sort of have a moral obligation not to jack the veterans.
00:37:41.000You don't need somebody to be your front man.
00:37:44.000And if you are gonna pick a front man, it doesn't have to look like Donald Trump.
00:37:47.000Donald Trump, who yesterday was doing his routine about Vince Foster that we talked about, how Vince Foster
00:37:52.000Didn't commit suicide, he was murdered by the Clintons, but he doesn't know enough about it to comment on it, but he sort of does, and so he sort of thinks it happened, but he sort of doesn't, and he's not really saying about it, but if he were, he would say that Vince Foster was killed by the Clintons, right?
00:38:04.000Katrina Pearson, who is his less-than-stellar spokeswoman, was on CNN with Wolf Blitzer, and she was asked about this.
00:38:11.000This is the person who you're picking?
00:39:40.000And so he was ripping on Glenn Beck, calling Glenn Beck the new American psycho.
00:39:43.000This guy has been a big Trump backer since the very start, and a lot of the conspiracy theories Trump parrots come courtesy of people like Alex Jones, right?
00:40:07.000Yeah, but let's show the American Psycho when he's being friendly, when he's being nice, not when he's killing.
00:40:11.000And then let's, let's, let's, let's then cut to Glenn Beck and Mark Zuckerberg, and you just see the look, because the eyes are like shark eyes.
00:40:20.000They're smiling, trying to look friendly, but it's an adapted face, just like a anglerfish.
00:40:26.000It looks like a pretty light, looks like a tasty, you know, glow-in-the-dark plankton.
00:40:31.000And the little fish thinks, boy, I found a big old juicy plankton or a big old... Oh!
00:40:35.000But you see, you don't see in the dark... What is he talking about?
00:40:38.000...laying there, stalking the big black fish with the big long teeth and the little shark eyes.
00:40:47.000Because there's nothing behind him but...
00:40:50.000The gates of hell come into the darkness.
00:40:54.000If you saw Zuckerberg right now, you'd understand what I'm talking about.
00:41:28.000Where you will presumably live with Chris Farley, if you listen to Alex Jones, okay?
00:41:32.000This is, this is the guy, Alex Jones is the guy who has accused the American government of being involved in the Oklahoma City bombing, the September 11th attacks, Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting he said was a false flag to grab all the guns.
00:42:39.000But this one girl gets up, and this is great.
00:42:41.000She's a member of the College Republicans, and she grabs a mic, and she starts lecturing the Black Lives Matter people who shut down the event, and here's what she had to say.
00:42:48.000This is the hero of the story right here.
00:43:07.000You were complaining about how we wouldn't let you in, and if what we say and what we do is about letting people in and acceptance, then by all means, we'd let you in.
00:46:40.000She's doing this routine where the answer to, is Donald Trump... I mean, that's such a softball right over the heart of the plate from Ellen.
00:46:47.000You know, is Donald Trump good for women?
00:46:48.000The answer is no, of course Donald Trump isn't good for women.
00:47:08.000He said women should be treated like crap, and he didn't use the word crap back in the 1980s.
00:47:12.000He's somebody who has been credibly accused of rape in court documents.
00:47:16.000Like, there's a thousand things you could say here that are interesting and thought-provoking and headline-making, which is really what this is about.
00:47:23.000There's a headline today that Hillary thinks that she's not going to be able to generate headlines.
00:47:26.000She knows Trump's going to dominate the media coverage.
00:47:28.000She just hopes Trump will lose the news cycle.
00:50:11.000It's really cool because they did some of these things shot-for-shot for the animated film, so there's some shots in here where you can actually compare the two side-by-side and it's really, really neat.
00:50:35.000But the film itself really is delightful, and they added a whole kind of subplot on the prince's side about the prince and his father, who's played by Derek Jacoby, that's really moving.
00:50:54.000So, Alan Dershowitz, I don't hate what Dershowitz says here.
00:50:56.000I think what Dershowitz says is exactly right.
00:50:58.000He was talking about what happened in Baltimore yesterday, and we played yesterday DeRay McKesson on Megyn Kelly talking about how the trial in Baltimore that ended with the acquittal of the officer, Officer Nero, how that was terrible.
00:51:10.000DeRay McKesson said it was awful, awful, awful.
00:51:12.000Here is Alan Dershowitz, who is a lefty, talking about the tendency of the left to try and use the criminal justice system to solve racial problems.
00:51:21.000These are officers who, you know, may have made a mistake.
00:51:24.000But they are not guilty of criminal conduct.
00:52:54.000It's up to you to inform people that the principles for which they're standing are wrong, and why they're wrong, and why they need to make their own lives better, and by leaving you alone, they're going to make everyone's life better.