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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 2273 - Unspoken Truths on Trans Can Now Be Said

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News Commentary, News

4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Malcolm Gladwell admits he caved to pressure to promote the radical trans agenda; Democrats claim there’s nothing wrong with free speech in the UK; and China gets feisty, along with Russia. Click here to join the member-exclusive portion of my show: https://bit.ly/3WDjgHE Ep.2273 - - - Facts Don’t Care About Your Feelings - - - DailyWire+: Order my new book, Lions and Scavengers: The True Story of America (and Her Critics) right now at https://bit.ly/4lVaMEA The Isabel Brown Show, premieres September 8th. Watch at http://dailywire.com Get your Ben Shapiro merch here: https://bit.ly/3TAu2cw - - - Today's Sponsors: Birch Gold - Text BEN to 989898 for your free information kit. Boll & Branch - Get 15% off, plus free shipping on your first set of sheets at https://BollAndBranch.com/ben Grand Canyon University - Find your purpose at Grand Canyon University. Visit https://gcu.edu today. Bambee - Right now, get one month of Bambee for just ONE DOLLAR! Go to https://Bambee.com and type in 'Ben Shapiro' under Podcast to schedule your first call with an HR Manager RIGHT NOW! - - - Socials: Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3cXUn53  Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3QtuibJ  Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3TTirqd  Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RPyBiB - - - Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

A major liberal journalist acknowledges that actually the reason he didn't say the truth about trans was, in fact, social pressure.

0:06.9

Also, Democrats are now claiming that there's no free speech crisis in the UK, but there is in the United States and the presidents of the United States doing something really, really smart about crime in New Orleans.

0:16.9

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0:57.6

But now, finally, there are some people who are heretofore on the left who are acknowledging

1:02.9

that that is in fact the case.

1:04.5

And this is just one of the beautiful flowering fruit of the Trump administration,

1:09.0

is that people are free to say things they didn't feel free to say before. And you can easily read this kind of newfound enthusiasm for free speech

1:18.3

as cynical. The winds have changed. People are now deciding that they want to say what is more

1:23.6

popular. Or you can read it as repentance. The reason this comes up today is because Malcolm Gladwell, who of course is a very famous

1:29.5

bestselling author, who's been a guest on the program before.

1:31.7

I've been a guest on his program as well.

1:34.3

He came out yesterday, and he explained his amended point of view on transgender athletes,

1:40.5

meaning men playing against women in sport.

1:43.2

And he was talking specifically about a 2022 appearance at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics

1:47.7

Conference where he moderated a panel discussion in which they talked about the path forward

1:52.6

for the inclusion of trans athletes in sports, meaning men playing with the women.

1:57.3

And here's what Malcolm Gladwell had to say yesterday.

2:00.9

The reason I'm ashamed of my performance of that panel because I share your position

2:06.5

100% and I was count. The idea of saying anything on this issue, I was, you know, I believe

2:16.4

in retrospect, in a dishonest way, I was, I was objective in a dishonest.

2:22.5

And of course, that is right.

2:24.9

That is honest.

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