The Ben Shapiro Show - August 14, 2026


The Alleged Scheme to Keep Kids on Hormones


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Length

9 minutes

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184.92

Word count

1,766

Sentence count

151


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00:00:00.000 Do you want your tax dollars to pay for transing the kids?
00:00:02.000 Yeah, I didn't think so.
00:00:03.000 It seems like Medicare for All is in vogue these days.
00:00:05.000 Not only would Medicare for All require a significant chunk out of your paycheck, not just the billionaires, but Democrats want you to pay for so called gender affirming care.
00:00:13.000 You know, that's like the barbaric surgeries and hormone injections for teenagers who have a problem, who heard on Tumblr that they will be happier if they pretend to be the opposite sex.
00:00:21.000 A recent report out of the Department of Health and Human Services uncovers a fraud scheme that has been billing you the taxpayer for all of this nonsense, and we'll look at the details.
00:00:28.000 It holds true to this day.
00:00:29.000 Democrats aren't for you, yours, they are for them.
00:00:33.000 You thought the trans movement was over.
00:00:34.000 Wrong you are.
00:00:36.000 Wrong you are.
00:00:37.000 If the Democrats come back, it's coming back all the way.
00:00:40.000 It's coming back all the way.
00:00:42.000 Representative Sarah McBride, who is in fact a biological man, is out there stumping for the trans yet again.
00:00:51.000 We are facing a cultural regression in this moment, not just substantively, but in public opinion.
00:00:59.000 Support for marriage is less today than it was three or four years ago.
00:01:05.000 To your point, support on individual issues facing the trans community, on individual policies around trans rights, by every objective metric, is worse today than it was five years ago.
00:01:18.000 Now, there are so many issues of trans rights that maintain public support that have a majority of support, but even on those issues, it is less support today than it was four or five years ago.
00:01:29.000 And there are a whole host of reasons for that.
00:01:32.000 There is no question that a well funded, well coordinated, right wing regressive movement.
00:01:39.000 Has successfully pushed public opinion backwards.
00:01:46.000 It's the right wing regressive movement, not people cosplaying as women and then pretending that that is a mark of virtue and that you're a bigot if you notice.
00:01:52.000 Sarah McBride is, of course, a dude.
00:01:55.000 And Sarah McBride, I mean, if you couldn't tell by the fact that Sarah McBride's voice is lower than mine after the hormone treatment, that is actually a biological man.
00:02:03.000 And again, the left will never take the blame for having pushed the American people too far.
00:02:07.000 It's all your fault for noticing the thing.
00:02:09.000 Meanwhile, Margaret Cho.
00:02:11.000 I don't know why she's relevant anymore, but I guess she's still wandering the earth saying things.
00:02:16.000 She says, we're in the middle of a trans genocide.
00:02:18.000 Guys, genocide is a word with a meaning.
00:02:21.000 Can you please just stop applying it to things you don't like?
00:02:23.000 For the second time on today's show, genocide doesn't just mean a thing that you find unpleasant or unpalatable.
00:02:31.000 When my kids get too much homework from school, that's not a genocide.
00:02:35.000 It isn't.
00:02:37.000 Okay, when I bite into an apple, And there's a bruise, and I don't like the apple.
00:02:43.000 A genocide has not actually taken place.
00:02:46.000 And there is not a trans genocide happening in the United States.
00:02:49.000 This is stupid.
00:02:51.000 It's unbelievably stupid.
00:02:56.000 And, you know, the way that our government treats trans lives with just, you know, insane bathroom laws and identity laws or taking people's driver's licenses.
00:03:06.000 And, you know, it's just, I mean, it seems endless whether it's, um, Re legalizing conversion therapy, you know, Supreme Court on down, you know, you have all of these things that, you know, we're in the middle of a transgenocide and we have to do anything that we can to stop it.
00:03:28.000 Well, it's so tiresome.
00:03:30.000 It's so, so tiresome.
00:03:30.000 But, you know, I guess the good news is it's going to push people back to the rights.
00:03:33.000 That's going to happen.
00:03:34.000 The HHS put out a gigantic study yesterday talking about how doctors and hospitals pushed and profited from gender medicine fraud.
00:03:43.000 Of course, we know that already.
00:03:45.000 Tons of stories of this.
00:03:46.000 Back to school season is here.
00:03:47.000 That means the kids have new backpacks, new teachers, new schedules, and approximately four days from now, somebody in your house will have a runny nose.
00:03:53.000 Because sending kids back to school, you're sending them into a gigantic germ exchange program.
00:03:58.000 I mean, honestly, we're already hitting it.
00:03:59.000 We are already hitting it.
00:04:00.000 The minute we send our kids to a place with a bunch of other kids, someone comes down with a cold.
00:04:05.000 I have five kids.
00:04:06.000 It happens like all the time.
00:04:07.000 And then mommy gets it.
00:04:08.000 It sucks.
00:04:09.000 It's literally happening to my life right now.
00:04:12.000 This right now is the time of year when I'm especially conscious of what we need to eat.
00:04:15.000 You want the fruits, you want the veggies, you want everybody eating well.
00:04:18.000 And then reality intervenes.
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00:04:49.000 So that HHS report says a lot of things.
00:04:52.000 Quote, the fraud scheme itself, hospitals and clinics allegedly swapped real diagnosis codes for fake ones, endocrine disorder unspecified instead of gender dysphoria to trick insurance into paying.
00:05:02.000 The report's own claims analysts Found nearly $50 million billed that way for puberty blockers alone.
00:05:07.000 So people are making tons of money off this stuff.
00:05:10.000 There's something called the Wean Protocol.
00:05:12.000 A Texas AG lawsuit alleges the Children's Health System of Texas built a fake compliance scheme after the state banned pediatric transition, designed to look like weaning kids off hormones while secretly keeping them on them until they turned 18.
00:05:25.000 Boys were reportedly given estrogen implants billed to medicate as contraceptions.
00:05:28.000 They were just like misbilling everything using fake words and fake labels.
00:05:34.000 W. Path's own sworn testimony that castration could be medically necessary even for a healthy man with no diagnosed condition, plus internal admissions.
00:05:40.000 The guideline language was shaped to win lawsuits, not reflect science.
00:05:44.000 Okay, that is insane, first of all.
00:05:46.000 They testified that castration was medically necessary for a healthy man with no diagnosable condition.
00:05:52.000 So we're not talking about somebody with like testicular cancer.
00:05:55.000 We're saying that you have a problem in your brain and castration, we need to cut off your genitals to make you feel better.
00:06:03.000 Okay.
00:06:05.000 There are patient stories in this HHS report.
00:06:07.000 There's one from a Layla Jane, a double mastectomy one month after turning 13.
00:06:11.000 Parents were told it was a live son or a dead daughter, which is always the propaganda line that was used on trans, is that if you don't mutilate your child, your child will kill themselves.
00:06:19.000 Total, total crap.
00:06:22.000 Also, one Soren Aldico, post op complications described as draining three cups of blood from her chest with Q tips.
00:06:29.000 This is the barbarity, the insane barbarity.
00:06:32.000 Tony Blinken called denial of these procedures violence.
00:06:35.000 The DOJ argued that denying prisoners the surgery was cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment.
00:06:40.000 Some had violated the Constitution not to trans the prisoners.
00:06:44.000 All of this is insane.
00:06:45.000 It's all covered in this HHS report about the predations of so called trans medicine.
00:06:51.000 Obviously, we here at the Daily Web have been covering this stuff since literally day one.
00:06:53.000 We are the company that is most responsible for the cultural shift with regard to this issue.
00:06:58.000 We're very proud of that, from Matt Walsh's work to the fact that I've been pushing back personally on this stuff since before it was cool to do so.
00:07:03.000 And we, from literally day one of this company, said we will never use a quote unquote preferred pronoun, we will only use biological sex pronouns.
00:07:11.000 And the fact that we will help to end this epidemic, I think, is a huge mark in our favor.
00:07:17.000 But the battle goes on.
00:07:18.000 Let's talk about Mayor Jacob Fry of Minneapolis.
00:07:21.000 So, Jacob Fry is basically low rent Justin Trudeau.
00:07:26.000 I think that's a fair description.
00:07:29.000 He's an idiot lib mayor with really nice hair.
00:07:33.000 In Minneapolis, he's made an ass of himself many times, whether it was kneeling in front of the casket of George Floyd or whether it was apologizing for whiteness in front of gigantic crowds.
00:07:41.000 And now he's dancing.
00:07:43.000 At a Black entrepreneur state fair, and just a general recommendation to politicians do not dance publicly.
00:07:50.000 It never ends well.
00:07:51.000 I've yet to see a politician dancing publicly where he went, man, that was a boon for them.
00:07:56.000 They're always just Elaine and Seinfeld.
00:07:58.000 Always.
00:07:59.000 Here's Mayor Jacob Fry doing this.
00:08:02.000 Oh, boy.
00:08:08.000 Oh, no.
00:08:10.000 Oh, no.
00:08:13.000 He's doing something.
00:08:18.000 Being extremely wow.
00:08:22.000 No.
00:08:23.000 Did not have to do any of this.
00:08:26.000 No.
00:08:27.000 None of this was necessary.
00:08:30.000 He's doing the head bob.
00:08:31.000 Honestly, this is not the worst politician dancing I've ever seen.
00:08:34.000 There have been some.
00:08:36.000 Oh, no, it's no, no, now we got it.
00:08:37.000 He was doing okay, and then it got worse.
00:08:38.000 Then it got worse.
00:08:40.000 Now it's getting a little better again.
00:08:40.000 It got worse.
00:08:43.000 Okay, and then it's going to get worse again.
00:08:48.000 Oh, no.
00:08:49.000 Oh, no.
00:08:50.000 Not the worst I've ever seen.
00:08:52.000 We've seen some pretty bad politician dancing.
00:08:54.000 That is like, we're going to have to do a YouTube video where we just rate politicians dancing.
00:08:58.000 Because I feel like there are a lot of videos of them, and that's actually on the upper spectrum.
00:09:02.000 Of bad dancing.
00:09:03.000 Like, he's not good.
00:09:04.000 He's not the worst dancer I've ever seen, which you'd figure.
00:09:07.000 I mean, he's a metrosexual dude from Minneapolis.
00:09:10.000 So he's been to a few gay bars.
00:09:13.000 Maybe.
00:09:14.000 Anyway, yeah, all right.
00:09:16.000 Well, you know, I guess credit to Mayor Jacob Fry for, you know, mostly embarrassing himself, but not going fully all the way.
00:09:23.000 What an amazing video you just watched.
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