The Ben Shapiro Show - June 22, 2026


Should This Be in a Kids' Cartoon? The NYT Says Yes.


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The New York Times publishes a piece about a woman who is celebrating Father's Day as a woman pretending to be a man. Plus, Disneyland does a pride parade and a trans New Hampshire state rep is arrested on child exploitation charges. Spoiler alert: it's a radical idea. Stay away from the kids.

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00:00:00.000 The New York Times has consistently dishonored fathers on Father's Day.
00:00:03.000 In the past, they've published op-eds about deadbeat dads, abusive dads, and the like.
00:00:07.000 This year, we got an op-ed about dads who are actually women. 0.55
00:00:11.000 She's not a regular mom. 0.98
00:00:12.000 She's a cool dad mom. 0.89
00:00:14.000 Plus, Disneyland does a pride parade and a trans New Hampshire state rep is arrested on child exploitation charges.
00:00:19.000 Spoiler alerted to dude.
00:00:20.000 How about this radical idea?
00:00:22.000 Stay away from the kids, gang.
00:00:24.000 Leftism in the United States may be in remission, but it too will come back and it will come back with a vengeance.
00:00:29.000 And all the indicators are there.
00:00:30.000 All of them.
00:00:32.000 I know there are a lot of people today who believe that the trans radical movement is dead.
00:00:35.000 No way.
00:00:36.000 No way.
00:00:36.000 If Democrats get power again, they will come back as hard as ever on this issue.
00:00:41.000 Most absurd Father's Day, quote unquote, op ed I've ever seen over at the New York Times.
00:00:47.000 They put out a cartoon op ed about a woman who transed herself into a not man and now is celebrating Father's Day as a woman pretending to be a man.
00:01:01.000 And the piece is titled, To My Daughter, My Gender Was Never Complicated.
00:01:04.000 And it's all about this woman cosplaying as a man with hormone treatments and breast surgeries and all the rest and talking to her young child, very young child, and indoctrinating her young child in the ways of this madness. 0.57
00:01:19.000 And so there are all these cartoons in this piece. 0.61
00:01:22.000 The piece is insane.
00:01:24.000 Every cartoon is increasingly nuts or lack thereof, as the case may be.
00:01:30.000 And, um, I'm just going to give you a few indicators.
00:01:32.000 One cartoon shows a bearded, hairy legged, Woman, man, and says they can move between complex topics.
00:01:41.000 And shows this person walking alongside a child saying, and the child saying, How long did you have breasts for, dad? 0.98
00:01:46.000 Do you understand how you're screwing up the minds of kids with this nonsense?
00:01:51.000 And that's the feature, not the bug, because it's all about the validation.
00:01:54.000 It turns out, as always, it's all about narcissistic personality disorder and the validation necessary from children.
00:02:00.000 I'd carried shame around my whole life.
00:02:01.000 I didn't want to pass that on to my daughter.
00:02:04.000 And then it's the child hanging upside down from the monkey bar saying, I want to grow a beard when I grow up.
00:02:10.000 Oh, isn't that nice?
00:02:11.000 Because now your daughter wants to be a man.
00:02:16.000 It says, these cartoons are insane.
00:02:19.000 Quote, I had to trust her with the most vulnerable version of myself.
00:02:23.000 And the child says, I told my friends at school that mom made you a cake when you got your surgery.
00:02:29.000 And then the mom dad says, quote, oh, right, that's nice.
00:02:33.000 But I don't actually tell everyone I'm trans, I save that for special people.
00:02:36.000 And the child says, oh, don't worry, I didn't tell them you were trans.
00:02:41.000 And then the cartoon says at the very end, it's a picture of mom dad reflecting in the pond.
00:02:54.000 And it says, The more I've watched Elliot embrace who she is, moving through the world and with her wild and free spirit and her sense of humor, the more I've learned to embrace who I am.
00:03:04.000 I thought I was teaching Elliot how to be happy and secure, yet all along, she'd been doing that for me.
00:03:10.000 Oh, because it's all about you.
00:03:12.000 Isn't that nice? 0.93
00:03:13.000 You're screwing up your kids' view of biological sex, but it's all about you.
00:03:17.000 So you feel awesome about yourself and just congrats, just a huge congrats, because it turns out that children are just tools to make yourself feel better about life, apparently. 0.85
00:03:26.000 And Father's Day is for women who say they're dads because there's no difference between men and women. 0.71
00:03:33.000 This is all just perverse.
00:03:34.000 I'm sorry.
00:03:34.000 It's perverse.
00:03:36.000 It is a perversity.
00:03:37.000 It's an ideological perversity.
00:03:39.000 And the New York Times will keep pushing it and it ain't going away.
00:03:41.000 It ain't going away.
00:03:41.000 The values of New York and LA.
00:03:44.000 Will come back with a vengeance if Democrats take power again.
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00:04:50.000 Disneyland held a pride night over in California.
00:04:52.000 Again, this is not Disney World, this is Disneyland.
00:04:55.000 And Mickey was marching in front of the kids.
00:04:59.000 It's just delightful.
00:05:00.000 Here's some of the video.
00:05:06.000 So you've got drag queens marching alongside Mickey.
00:05:12.000 And all the characters, Chip and Dale, dancing on the pride float.
00:05:22.000 And men dancing with each other at Disneyland.
00:05:24.000 It's a place for children. 0.95
00:05:26.000 For children, gang. 0.91
00:05:30.000 That's nice.
00:05:31.000 Isn't that delightful?
00:05:33.000 Like, this is, yeah, exactly.
00:05:34.000 This is the indoctrination of children into the.
00:05:36.000 Hey, what are you doing?
00:05:40.000 Seriously, what are you doing?
00:05:42.000 Disneyland, what are you doing?
00:05:44.000 This is, this is, why in the world, why in the world would you take what is clearly adult activity and put it in the middle of Disneyland?
00:05:51.000 Why would you do such a thing?
00:05:53.000 And you may suggest that it's heteronormative that there are princes and princesses who fall in love with each other in Disney movies because reality is heteronormative.
00:06:01.000 I hate to break it to you.
00:06:01.000 The entire basis, Of human reproduction is heteronormative.
00:06:06.000 That is how biological sex works.
00:06:09.000 There may be exceptions to the rule, but the glorification of those exceptions and treating the exception as though it ought to be the rule in front of children is, again, it's all about the proselytization when it comes to stuff like this.
00:06:23.000 What else is it for?
00:06:24.000 Nobody is.
00:06:25.000 Remember how it was what happens in my bedroom stays in my bedroom and now it's just parades at Disneyland?
00:06:31.000 If you think that this stuff is not going to come back, And come back significantly stronger than it ever was in revenge for Donald Trump's tenure, you're out of your mind.
00:06:37.000 It absolutely will come back.
00:06:39.000 Woke is not gone.
00:06:40.000 Woke is just sleeping.
00:06:42.000 And woke will awaken once again when Democrats take power.
00:06:46.000 Once again.
00:06:48.000 Insane.
00:06:49.000 Insane stuff.
00:06:50.000 But, you know, a good reminder of what is at stake in America on the cultural front.
00:06:54.000 Meanwhile, speaking of going after children, horrible story out of New Hampshire.
00:06:59.000 A New Hampshire state representative was now sentenced to 33 years in prison on child exploitation charges.
00:07:05.000 Stacey Lawton, 42, Fled guilty in November to three counts of sexual exploitation of children.
00:07:10.000 Prosecutors say Lawton encouraged her former romantic partner, Lindsey Groves, to take explicit photographs of children at the Massachusetts daycare where she worked.
00:07:19.000 There's only one problem. 1.00
00:07:20.000 Lawton, again, it's an insult to women. 1.00
00:07:22.000 It's an insult. 1.00
00:07:22.000 You read that and you're like, oh, why is a lady taking perverse pictures of children? 1.00
00:07:25.000 It turns out that lady is a pedophilic dude, allegedly. 1.00
00:07:29.000 In 2012, Lawton, a Democrat, was believed to be the first transgender person elected to a state legislature. 0.97
00:07:35.000 But she resigned. 0.97
00:07:37.000 It's a dude.
00:07:38.000 Before taking her seat, It's a dude.
00:07:41.000 After reports about her earlier convictions, it's a dude. 0.82
00:07:45.000 For identity fraud and falsifying evidence.
00:07:48.000 She successfully ran again in 2020, dude, and was reelected in 2022.
00:07:57.000 She resigned, he, in December 2024 after being jailed on the charges related to Groves.
00:08:02.000 Groves of Hudson was sentenced earlier this month to 22 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of sexual exploitation of children. 0.99
00:08:09.000 Here's what Stacey Lawton looks like, by the way.
00:08:10.000 This is a picture of Stacey Lawton.
00:08:13.000 Yeah, that's a dude.
00:08:16.000 That's a dude.
00:08:17.000 And that's a dude who worked at a comic book store.
00:08:21.000 That's what that dude looks like.
00:08:23.000 That is a balding, large dude with long hair in the back.
00:08:29.000 That's a dude.
00:08:30.000 It's always the ones you most suspect.
00:08:34.000 That is not great. 0.99
00:08:38.000 And this is why, again, it is a terrible idea for the media to continue promoting the idea that women are sexually abusing children when it actually is just a perverse dude pretending to be a lady who has some sick sexual fetishes. 0.97
00:08:48.000 I mean, that's actually what's going on here. 0.91
00:08:50.000 Again, stay away from the kids, gang.
00:08:53.000 You got your own issues.
00:08:54.000 We all get it.
00:08:55.000 You're an adult, and I don't morally approve of what you're doing.
00:08:58.000 I think, frankly, that mutilation of any sort should be banned.
00:09:01.000 But apparently, it's still legal in many places, in every place in the United States.
00:09:07.000 But your issues should not become the issues of the children, either in an extreme case like this one or in a less extreme case like what was going on at Disneyland over the weekend.
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