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April 27, 2017 - The Ben Shapiro Show
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Ep. 292 - Should We Train Three-Year-Olds To Be Boys And Girls?
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On Saturday, leftists around the nation took to the streets to sound off about their new religion.
Science!
No, not testable hypotheses and well-constructed experiments.
Science!
You know, like gay rights and abortion and global redistributionism and dying polar bears and stuff.
Leading the charge was eminent scientific revolutionary Bill Nye the science guy, a mechanical engineering degree holder who got famous as a children's television presenter.
Nye was a keynoter at the March for Science where he said, quote, we are marching today to remind people everywhere, our lawmakers especially, of the significance of science for our health and prosperity.
What sort of science was Nye standing up to defend?
Budget increases for the EPA and the National Institutes of Health, of course.
He explained how all of this was scientific and not political.
He said, somewhere along the way, there has developed this idea that if you believe something hard enough, It's as true as things discovered through the process of science.
And I will say, that's objectively wrong.
Belief isn't science.
This is a good point.
Unfortunately, Nye then followed up his widely praised appearance at the March for Science by unleashing a video that destroyed the internet from his news show, Bill Nye Saves the World.
He trotted out crazy ex-girlfriend to actress Rachel Bloom to sing a very special song.
Those are Nye's words.
She warbled, and here's the dramatic read.
My vagina has its own voice, not vocal cords, a metaphorical voice.
Sometimes I do a voice for my vagina.
Cuz my sex junk is so-o-o-o.
Much more than either-or-or-or.
Power bottom, or power top.
Versatile love may have some butt stuff.
It's evolution, ain't nothing new.
There's nothing taboo about a sex stew.
This is real, this happened.
If they're alive, I'll date em.
Channing or genitate em.
I'm down for anything.
Don't box in my box.
Science!
If these all seem rather unscientific to you, if you wonder why a talking vagina with obvious self-control problems is being trotted out by the self-proclaimed science guy, you're not alone.
You're rational.
You might even be using some scientific thinking.
But this is demonstrative of the left's take on science.
Science is actually just the name for anything the left likes.
Worried about the humanity of an unborn child?
Concerned that fetuses have their own blood types and their own DNA?
Stop it!
You're quoting science, not science!
Wondering how it is that a genetic male is actually a woman?
You're worrying about science.
Not science!
This is the dirty little secret of the left's sudden embrace of science!
It's not science that they support, but religion.
They support that which they believe but cannot prove and do not care about proving.
Bill Nye isn't interested in a scientific debate about global warming, how much is occurring, the measurement techniques it issued, the sensitivity of the climate to carbon emissions, the range of factors that affect the climate.
He wants you to accept his version of the truth.
Not just that global warming is happening, but that massive government intervention is necessary in order to avert imminent global catastrophe.
Such government solutions aren't verifiably scientific.
They're speculative.
But that speculation has costs, particularly to the most impoverished people on the planet, who benefit disproportionately from cheap carbon-based fuels.
Even if you accept the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimate that sea levels will rise by two feet over the course of the rest of the century and the temperature will rise about seven degrees Fahrenheit, there is reason to question, as Oren Cass points out, whether or not massive government intervention is necessary or even justifiable.
But the left refuses to acknowledge such questions.
It makes you a denier to disagree with the left's Conclusions.
Just as it makes you a cruel person to wonder whether gun control will actually lower the American murder rate.
Science, in other words, is just a baton for the left.
A decade ago, the left declared President Bush anti-science for his restrictions on the use of new federally funded fetal stem cell lines.
They claimed that Bush hated science, that fetal stem cells were the wave of the future, that Bush was a moral ayatollah in the words of Senator Tom Harkin.
Democrats ran on the promise that if Bush were thrown out of office in 2004, they'd make Christopher Reeve walk again using fetal stem cells.
But it turned out fetal stem cells were unnecessary to scientific research.
Scientists came up with an embryo-free process to produce genetically matched stem cells.
As Charles Krauthammer, no religious fundamentalist, and a guy who, by the way, is paralyzed, wrote at the time, Why?
Precisely because he took a moral stance.
In other words, Bush didn't rely on science to give him his values.
Nor should he have.
Science is not capable of making value-laden decisions.
There are plenty of obegines who know better than the most pro-life conservative just how complex life is in the womb, yet they will perform abortions.
Science has not dictated their behavior.
The Nazis were famously pro-science, declaring that science itself mandated the killing of the unfit for the strengthening of the race.
Their racism was supposedly scientific.
That's why the March for Science is such foolishness.
If the march were simply focused on advocacy for increased EPA funding, that would be political, not scientific.
If the marchers were demanding more funding for the NIH too, that too would be political, but with a stronger scientific component.
But the March for Science was actually a march for science, the leftist religion.
And that leftist religion isn't interested in science in the slightest.
It's simplistic and simple-minded virtue signaling.
I'm Ben Shapiro.
This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
Okay, I have much more to say about science, and we'll also give you the update on what's going on with Ann Coulter at Berkeley.
We'll give you the update on the healthcare negotiations.
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Okay, so the Democrats continue to harp about science, and their new favorite science people are – obviously they love Caitlyn Jenner because Caitlyn Jenner is an emissary for science, which is silly.
But the other person who's the emissary for science is Bill Nye, the science guy, which just demonstrates – you have the left, which claims that it's just terrible.
We have a celebrity president.
The person that they are trotting out as their lead spokesperson for science is a guy with a mechanical engineering degree from Cornell.
Right?
In like 1979.
That guy is the scientist who they think is the expert on all things scientific, and that means that Bill Nye is pushing his version of science.
What does his version of science look like?
Well, again, he has this idiotic show on Netflix called Bill Nye Saves the World, and as I said yesterday, spoiler alert, he doesn't.
Here is a segment from that horrible show in which he says that three-year-olds should be able to choose their own gender.
By three or four, most kids identify with a gender.
And it doesn't always match the sex they were assigned at birth.
And a person's gender identity may change over their lifetime.
And culture is getting us new ways to express all of this.
How you dress, how you act, talk, how you present yourself to the world.
It should be up to you.
Sure, this might make things confusing for those who insist everyone pick an M or an F.
But people, we have to listen to the science.
And the science says we're all on a spectrum.
Okay, science does not say you're on a spectrum of sex.
When they say gender, see this is what the left likes to do, and it's really, really stupid, okay?
The left says that gender is a social construct.
And what they mean by that is femininity and masculinity are a social construct.
Here is the truth about that.
There are certain aspects of masculinity that are certainly not a social construct.
Higher levels of testosterone average higher levels of violence by males than females.
That is not a social construct, that is a biological reality, okay?
So that is not an aspect of gender, that's more an aspect of sex.
The left likes to conflate sex and gender, so they separate these two things.
They say sex is your biology, and then they say that gender is a social construct that says you need to be masculine or you need to be feminine.
Now, not a lot of people that I know actually care whether you act masculine or whether you act feminine, per se.
But that's not choosing a gender, okay?
That's just whether you act masculine or feminine.
Then what the left does is they say, your masculinity or femininity, we can now read back into your sex.
So in other words, if you are a feminine man, right?
If you're a man who's biologically male and you act feminine, maybe you're a woman.
Okay, this is stupid and ascientific.
There's no evidence for it at all.
It is also evil to suggest that a three-year-old knows that they're going to choose a gender that is opposite of the one that they have.
Okay, three-year-olds don't know anything.
I know because I have a three-year-old.
Three-year-olds do not know anything.
It is your job as an adult to teach them about things that are complex and make the complex simple in ways that they can understand.
And if when they hit 15, they're still having problems, then we can have a conversation about this.
But this idea that three-year-olds are capable of choosing their gender is asinine.
Anyone who has a 3-year-old will tell you this, and it is cruel to a 3-year-old to say to the 3-year-old that you're going to be allowed to define your own essence of the world, and you're going to be allowed to override your own biology.
A 3-year-old is not capable of doing that.
And there is no science to support this.
What he has is anecdotal evidence saying that people who are 20 say, when I was 3, I felt like a girl in a boy's body.
That is not scientific evidence that there is some brain test we can run that determines you are actually a girl in a boy's body.
There's no scientific evidence to that effect.
The idea that he is saying this is purely anti-scientific.
But again, it's a political agenda masquerading as science.
I'm old enough to remember when Bill Nye was on my television explaining that sex was a function of chromosomes.
And that was actual science.
And now he's saying sex is a function of whatever's in your head, and it can change over time.
Your gender can change over time.
And again, the left likes to play this word game where they say, well, we don't mean your sex can change over time.
We mean your gender can change over time.
And they say, well, what do you mean by that?
And they say, well, it means you can be a woman.
Okay, now you're talking about sex again.
That's not the same thing.
If you're going to separate out the two terms, you have to be very specific in how you use gender.
If you mean that there can be a person who changes their behavior over time, bucking particular stereotypes about feminine and masculine, that I'm sure is true because people do it every day.
What is not true is that you can change your sex, and the left conflates the two after separating them out.
They like to pretend that everything that is feminine is not linked to sex, and then they pretend that if you are masculine as a girl, that means that you must be actually secretly a man.
Or you can choose to be a man, which is just as scientifically stupid.
Three-year-olds should not choose their own gender.
Parents who do this to their child are doing something evil to their children.
Your goal in life is not to confuse your children.
Your goal in life is to simplify things for your children.
Again, three-year-olds are not capable of making these types of decisions and damning a child to a lifetime of suffering.
Is just cruel.
The studies show that 8 in 10 kids, who at any point suffer from any sort of gender identity issues, grow out of that by the time they hit their teenage years.
And what he is saying is that we should tell all kids, 100 out of 100 kids, we should tell them all they can pick their sex.
So now you're telling a bunch of 3 year olds, who are by nature dumb, that they can pick their sex.
Okay, they can't.
And it is a lie.
And then beyond that lie, you're now confusing a hundred three-year-olds.
Let's just take it statistically.
Let's even pretend that Bill Nye was right.
Okay, let's pretend that it's biologically decided that you're a boy in a girl's body or some such nonsense, which is just not true.
And again, there's no scientific evidence to suggest that you're a boy in a girl's body.
In fact, even the people who say that brain scans show differences between transgender people and people who are not transgender, even those say That it is a transgender brain, but it does not mean that you have a woman's brain in a man's body.
It just means that you have differences from the traditional male brain.
Even that is really scanty evidence, but that's the furthest that good scientists will go.
And to say anything different is just not scientific.
But let's take this statistically and assume that the left is even correct.
Okay, so, the transgender suicide rate over the course of a lifetime is 40%. 40%.
Less than one person per 100 is going to be transgender in the United States.
It's just, it's very, very rare, okay?
And it's getting more common now because it's become kind of trendy, and because if you're a teenager and you want attention, then you can do it.
Or if you have doubts, then we have decided that we are going to promulgate those doubts into reality.
So, even if you're not just trying to do it for some nefarious reason, if you have doubts, we're now trying to reinforce those doubts as a society.
But let's use the numbers on hand, so like, say one out of a hundred kids is, has gender identity disorder or gender dysphoria.
Okay?
Now you're talking about that kid having a 40% lifetime suicide rate.
There's no evidence that that is mitigated in any significant way by society's acceptance of transgenderism.
Now, you're saying that, let's say that there are 100 kids who are told that they can pick their gender.
And 10 of those kids are now confused.
Right?
Not even 100.
10 of those kids are now confused.
And let's say That normally, according to those statistics, virtually all of them would grow out of this confusion.
Virtually all of them would grow out of this confusion.
But now you're reinforcing the confusion.
So now let's say those 10 all say, I'm the other sex.
So now you've taken a situation in which one kid had a transgender identity issue and has a 40% lifetime suicide rate.
And you're now extending that to 10 kids.
And let's even say that this new process lowers that one kid's rate of suicide attempt.
Let's say that it... of suicidality.
Let's say that it lowers it from 40% to 20%.
Let's say it halves it.
Okay, now if you've increased the number of people who are engaging in this particular problem by three, if you have confused three more kids, then you now have four kids, let's not even take the ten, let's say you now have four out of a hundred who have a 20% suicide rate, as opposed to one out of a hundred who has a 40% suicide rate.
You've not improved things, you've made things worse, in terms of people who are suicidal, for example.
Okay, this is just to take the statistical case.
But again, there is no moral case for confusing your child.
Sex differences are important.
Reinforcing sex differences is important, because if you don't want your child to suffer from tremendous cognitive dissonance, then the kid at least has to know about the standard, and then later they can choose whether or not they want to engage in the standard.
But the fact is, the standard is the standard, and the standard is not entirely constructed by society.
It wasn't like every society in the world came up with the idea that men were going to be soldiers, And women were going to be mothers, okay?
There's a lot more to that than just societies deciding things.
So this is all stupidity.
But again, it's not science, it is politics.
And Bill Nye did another one of these things.
Again, this show is just so awful.
I don't know how Netflix even greenlit it, except they're a bunch of leftists.
Bill Nye ran a segment about sexuality of ice cream.
Yes, really.
Of course enlightened and forward thinking, but not everyone sees it this way.
But there are lots of flavors to sexuality.
Right, why are we here, Vanilla?
Damn!
Oh, this again?
Come on!
Shut up, Straubs!
Settle, everybody.
Settle.
Now, I've spoken to some of you about my theories on the nature of being ice cream.
Which have no basis in science.
It's the science of feelings.
And as vanilla, I feel that I am the most natural of the ice creams, and therefore the rest of you should just go ahead and also be vanilla.
It's the one true flavor.
I was there for a second, so obviously the implication is here, there are a bunch of religious fanatics who want everybody to be straight, and if they're not straight, then we're gonna force them to be straight.
Okay, a couple of things that are worth noting here.
The reality is, that biologically speaking, it is more conducive to evolution and the species For people to be heterosexual.
This does not mean that everybody has to be heterosexual.
We should use the government to force people, God forbid, to engage in sexual activity of some sort.
But, this idea that all sexual behavior is created equal in terms of its benefit to the species is just not true.
That's just not true.
That is a feelings-driven position.
But, again, they're going to push this idea.
Again, I'm waiting to hear Who out there is saying that everybody needs to be straight?
I don't think that every, like, there are not a lot of people out there saying everybody needs to be straight.
There are people who are religious.
I'm a religious person.
I may think that it is sinful for people to engage in particular types of sexual congress, but that's my prerogative.
You may think I'm wrong.
Congratulations, it's a free country.
Being strawberry delicious!
Oh, Christ.
Look, no one can make you stop being strawberry.
Strawberry.
You're strawberry!
Hold me, salted caramel!
I just think if you want to get right with the big ice cream in the sky, change your flavor by wishing to be vanilla.
What if the big ice cream in the sky is chocolate?
Blasphemy!
Everyone should pretend to be vanilla until they no longer have the urge not to be vanilla.
I did not urge to be pistachio.
I am pistachio.
Hey, mint chocolate chip!
Sorry I'm late.
I was busy being two awesome things at once.
Cool!
Not cool.
Pick a lane, butt stain.
Vanilla's trying to convert us all again.
That's nuts.
No offense, nuts.
Come on, Vanilla.
Nobody wants just one flavor of ice cream.
I do.
Haven't you ever wanted to be in a Neapolitan?
I... I can't.
I can't.
Come on.
It's natural.
All natural cocoa.
And strawberry fresh from the field.
It's so creamy and delicious.
Mmm.
Mmm.
Big ice cream in the sky.
Help me.
It's good.
It's like... Giddy up.
Meet you at the bowl!
Okay, so in other words, everything is natural except for heterosexuality, got it?
The bottom line is that all religious people are secretly repressed people who want to have orgies with members of the same sex, bisexuals, transgender people, and if they could just taste all the other flavors of the rainbow, everything would be wonderful.
I love this idea that biology does not dictate heterosexuality, but it dictates That you are supposed to have sex with everything that moves.
Okay, there is no scientific basis for anything that is in this video.
This idea, like, I guess the idea is that everybody's sexuality is on a spectrum.
First of all, here's what the science actually says about this.
What it says is that female sexuality is more malleable based on environment and genetics.
Male sexuality is a lot more binary.
Okay, this is what the, this is what every study ever done on sexuality has said.
Men tend to be either very gay or very straight, and women tend to, there is a spectrum of sexuality for women.
Whatever.
The bottom line is that when they say that basically straight people are secretly gay, but you can't say that a gay person is secretly straight or has tendencies in that direction.
Amazing how all this works.
But again, it's just propaganda.
It's not science.
And it's not even good, right?
I mean, it ends with ice cream having sex with each other or something.
I'm just confused.
Ice cream doesn't have...
Just on a scientific basis, folks, ice cream does not have genitalia.
Okay, and if it does, don't eat it, because that's not ice cream.
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Meanwhile, in the non-Bill My news, and I know we just spent a lot of time on Bill My, but that's because I think that this is used as propaganda by the left.
Again, the idea – there's also something else here that I think is worth noting on that idiotic ice cream video.
The conflation of biology with morality is really stupid.
The idea that we're all biologically built to have sex with everything and therefore it's good and anybody who says that it's bad is wrong.
Okay, biology does not make things right.
There are a lot of things that are biological that are not right.
There are people who have... we all have a tendency I have a tendency to be promiscuous because I am a male.
I have a biological drive to have sex with many women.
I'm extraordinarily monogamous because I have a religious belief and a moral belief that it would be cruel to my wife to cheat on her, and it would be really bad to cheat on my wife.
It is immoral to do that.
We have that as a society.
That's a good thing that we have that as a society, even if morality is bucking biology.
To quote the old movie, The African Queen, with Catherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart, nature is, in many ways, what we were put here to rise above.
The idea that nature is supposed to dictate your behavior is really puerile and stupid, but it is also the basis of the left's political viewpoint.
Okay.
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