Here we are, folks. It is a Wednesday, and we have tons to get to, as always, here on The Ben Shapiro Show.

We are going to get to in just a little while this Houston ordinance on transgender rights that just got voted down.

We're going to get to Princess Leo. We're going to get to our deconstructing the culture segment because it is a Wednesday.

Tons to get to. Stick around. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show.

Tend to demonize people because don't care about your feelings.

All righty. So yesterday, Houston voted down this, what they call the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance.

The Houston Equal Rights Ordinance is basically a provision in Houston law that would force, quote-unquote, non-discrimination on the basis of

sex, sexual orientation, and what they call sexual identity, meaning that if I walked, if I were

living in Houston and I walked in tomorrow, and I were no longer Ben, I were Benjamina, and I were wearing a dress,

and I'd gotten a boob job. And I know there's a horrifying image for anybody who's picturing this, but if this all happened, that the Daily Wire would basically have to just deal with it. They couldn't do anything to me. They couldn't fire me. They couldn't do anything about it. And if I decided that I wished to follow Lindsay into the ladies' room, then also Lindsay couldn't do anything about it, and she would, in fact, be a bigot and a sexist if she denied my womanhood. This is what the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance did.

It was voted down by a two-to-one margin. This was actually endorsed by Hillary Clinton, this piece

of legislation. It was endorsed by the White House as well. The White House actually released a statement

from Jeff Tiller. He said, well, the administration generally does not take a formal position on specific proposals or

initiatives, the president and vice president have been strong supporters of state and local

efforts to protect Americans from being discriminated against based on who they are and who

they love. We're confident that the citizens of Houston

will vote in favor of fairness and equality. The citizens of Houston voted in favor of sanity

because it turns out that fairness and equality have nothing to do with me engaging in your illusion.

The idea here is that gender identity, gender itself, is a social construct. It was just made up.

And all this stuff about how girls are girls and men are men.

All this is just made up. If we'd all been brought up as genderless, androgynous weird creatures

in some nether region of South America, then we'd all be better off because gender is a social

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