The Ben Shapiro Show - August 14, 2026


The Alleged Scheme to Keep Kids on Hormones

Hosted by
Ben Shapiro
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Sarah McBride Jacob Fry Justin Trudeau Margaret Cho Sorin Aldako Tony Blinken George Floyd Matt Walsh W. Path Seinfeld Elaine Tons
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Length

9 minutes

Words per minute

184.92

Word count

1,766

Sentence count

150

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Misogyny

1

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Toxicity

17

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22

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00:00:00 Do you want your tax dollars to pay for transing the kids? 0.91
00:00:02 Yeah, I didn't think so. 0.97
00:00:03 It seems like Medicare for All is in vogue these days.
00:00:05 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. 0.93
00:00:13 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. 0.64
00:00:21 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. 0.97
00:00:28 It holds true to this day.
00:00:29 Democrats aren't for you, yours, they are for them. 0.51
00:00:33 You thought the trans movement was over.
00:00:34 Wrong you are.
00:00:36 Wrong you are.
00:00:37 If the Democrats come back, it's coming back all the way.
00:00:40 It's coming back all the way. 0.60
00:00:42 Representative Sarah McBride, who is in fact a biological man, is out there stumping for the trans yet again.
00:00:51 We are facing a cultural regression in this moment, not just substantively, but in public opinion.
00:00:59 Support for marriage is less today than it was three or four years ago.
00:01:05 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 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 And there are a whole host of reasons for that. 0.81
00:01:32 There is no question that a well funded, well coordinated, right wing regressive movement.
00:01:39 Has successfully pushed public opinion backwards.
00:01:46 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 Sarah McBride is, of course, a dude.
00:01:55 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 And again, the left will never take the blame for having pushed the American people too far.
00:02:07 It's all your fault for noticing the thing.
00:02:09 Meanwhile, Margaret Cho.
00:02:11 I don't know why she's relevant anymore, but I guess she's still wandering the earth saying things.
00:02:16 She says, we're in the middle of a trans genocide. 0.91
00:02:18 Guys, genocide is a word with a meaning.
00:02:21 Can you please just stop applying it to things you don't like?
00:02:23 For the second time on today's show, genocide doesn't just mean a thing that you find unpleasant or unpalatable.
00:02:31 When my kids get too much homework from school, that's not a genocide.
00:02:35 It isn't.
00:02:37 Okay, when I bite into an apple, And there's a bruise, and I don't like the apple.
00:02:43 A genocide has not actually taken place. 0.52
00:02:46 And there is not a trans genocide happening in the United States. 1.00
00:02:49 This is stupid. 1.00
00:02:51 It's unbelievably stupid. 1.00
00:02:56 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. 1.00
00:03:06 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. 0.98
00:03:28 Well, it's so tiresome. 1.00
00:03:30 It's so, so tiresome. 0.72
00:03:30 But, you know, I guess the good news is it's going to push people back to the rights. 0.72
00:03:33 That's going to happen.
00:03:34 The HHS put out a gigantic study yesterday talking about how doctors and hospitals pushed and profited from gender medicine fraud.
00:03:43 Of course, we know that already.
00:03:45 Tons of stories of this.
00:03:46 Back to school season is here.
00:03:47 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 Because sending kids back to school, you're sending them into a gigantic germ exchange program.
00:03:58 I mean, honestly, we're already hitting it.
00:03:59 We are already hitting it.
00:04:00 The minute we send our kids to a place with a bunch of other kids, someone comes down with a cold.
00:04:05 I have five kids.
00:04:06 It happens like all the time.
00:04:07 And then mommy gets it. 0.99
00:04:08 It sucks. 0.94
00:04:09 It's literally happening to my life right now. 0.96
00:04:12 This right now is the time of year when I'm especially conscious of what we need to eat.
00:04:15 You want the fruits, you want the veggies, you want everybody eating well.
00:04:18 And then reality intervenes.
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00:04:49 So that HHS report says a lot of things.
00:04:52 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 The report's own claims analysts Found nearly $50 million billed that way for puberty blockers alone.
00:05:07 So people are making tons of money off this stuff.
00:05:10 There's something called the Wean Protocol.
00:05:12 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 Boys were reportedly given estrogen implants billed to medicate as contraceptions.
00:05:28 They were just like misbilling everything using fake words and fake labels.
00:05:34 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 The guideline language was shaped to win lawsuits, not reflect science.
00:05:44 Okay, that is insane, first of all.
00:05:46 They testified that castration was medically necessary for a healthy man with no diagnosable condition.
00:05:52 So we're not talking about somebody with like testicular cancer. 0.99
00:05:55 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. 0.99
00:06:03 Okay. 1.00
00:06:05 There are patient stories in this HHS report.
00:06:07 There's one from a Layla Jane, a double mastectomy one month after turning 13.
00:06:11 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. 0.99
00:06:19 Total, total crap. 0.99
00:06:22 Also, one Soren Aldico, post op complications described as draining three cups of blood from her chest with Q tips. 0.99
00:06:29 This is the barbarity, the insane barbarity.
00:06:32 Tony Blinken called denial of these procedures violence.
00:06:35 The DOJ argued that denying prisoners the surgery was cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment.
00:06:40 Some had violated the Constitution not to trans the prisoners.
00:06:44 All of this is insane.
00:06:45 It's all covered in this HHS report about the predations of so called trans medicine.
00:06:51 Obviously, we here at the Daily Web have been covering this stuff since literally day one.
00:06:53 We are the company that is most responsible for the cultural shift with regard to this issue.
00:06:58 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 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 And the fact that we will help to end this epidemic, I think, is a huge mark in our favor.
00:07:17 But the battle goes on.
00:07:18 Let's talk about Mayor Jacob Fry of Minneapolis.
00:07:21 So, Jacob Fry is basically low rent Justin Trudeau.
00:07:26 I think that's a fair description. 1.00
00:07:29 He's an idiot lib mayor with really nice hair. 1.00
00:07:33 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. 1.00
00:07:41 And now he's dancing. 0.67
00:07:43 At a Black entrepreneur state fair, and just a general recommendation to politicians do not dance publicly.
00:07:50 It never ends well.
00:07:51 I've yet to see a politician dancing publicly where he went, man, that was a boon for them.
00:07:56 They're always just Elaine and Seinfeld.
00:07:58 Always.
00:07:59 Here's Mayor Jacob Fry doing this.
00:08:02 Oh, boy.
00:08:08 Oh, no.
00:08:10 Oh, no.
00:08:13 He's doing something.
00:08:18 Being extremely wow.
00:08:22 No.
00:08:23 Did not have to do any of this.
00:08:26 No.
00:08:27 None of this was necessary.
00:08:30 He's doing the head bob.
00:08:31 Honestly, this is not the worst politician dancing I've ever seen.
00:08:34 There have been some.
00:08:36 Oh, no, it's no, no, now we got it.
00:08:37 He was doing okay, and then it got worse.
00:08:38 Then it got worse.
00:08:40 Now it's getting a little better again.
00:08:40 It got worse.
00:08:43 Okay, and then it's going to get worse again.
00:08:48 Oh, no.
00:08:49 Oh, no.
00:08:50 Not the worst I've ever seen. 0.88
00:08:52 We've seen some pretty bad politician dancing.
00:08:54 That is like, we're going to have to do a YouTube video where we just rate politicians dancing.
00:08:58 Because I feel like there are a lot of videos of them, and that's actually on the upper spectrum.
00:09:02 Of bad dancing.
00:09:03 Like, he's not good.
00:09:04 He's not the worst dancer I've ever seen, which you'd figure.
00:09:07 I mean, he's a metrosexual dude from Minneapolis.
00:09:10 So he's been to a few gay bars.
00:09:13 Maybe.
00:09:14 Anyway, yeah, all right.
00:09:16 Well, you know, I guess credit to Mayor Jacob Fry for, you know, mostly embarrassing himself, but not going fully all the way.
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