Hey, hey, and welcome, folks. This is The Ben Shapiro Show. Yeah, it's a Sunday. But you know what we've

decided to start doing on Sundays? We're going to drop you a little bit of mailbag wisdom. So we're going to answer the questions we receive throughout the week from you. Now, you have to be a subscriber in order to have those questions answered, which is why you should go subscribe right now at Dailywireplus.com. Maybe your question will be the next one I answer. Corey says, Ben, I live in Washington State, where the legislature has recently passed bills allowing gender affirming care of minors without parental consent. I'm bothered that the Washington House and Senate Republicans don't point out the horrible truth of what's actually happening, such as the sterilization and removal of healthy body parts of minors, as Matt Walsh does. Instead, they use the left euphemism of gender affirming care. It seems to me they're losing the debate before it begins by allowing the truth to be obfuscated.

Is there any strategic reason for Republicans to speak the gender-affirming language? Not one iota of a reason. The left is so fond of euphemisms. It's euphemism after euphemism. And gender affirming care replaces the just-as-uphemistic sex change surgery because you can't actually change your sex. And since euphemism upon euphemism,

it started care replaces the just as euphemistic sex change surgery because you can't actually change your sex.

It says euphemism upon euphemism. It started off with sex change surgery. Then it was hormone

replacement therapy. Now it's gender affirming care. Again, all of this is euphemism. What it should

be is sex denying treatment because that's what it is. You're denying your own actual biological sex by altering your body and your hormones. That is what you are doing. The right should never give on this point. I mean, it's ridiculous. We do the same thing with abortion, by the way, the right. Even the term abortion or termination of a pregnancy, it is the killing of the unborn. That is what you are doing. and it can make the argument as to what the status of the unborn is at any given point, but the idea that you're not killing the thing that is unborn is obviously untrue. That is the thing that is happening. Jeremy says, what do you think the U.S. could do to win back the trust of its allies? Also, assuming France truly decides to become politically non-aligned and move away from the United

States, what do you think are the chances of France becoming an independent superpower of very,

very low?

France does not have the ability to become an independent superpower.

Now, France has the most durability of any other country on the continent.

It's like Germany and France are the two most durable countries on the continent of Europe,

mainly because the reproduction rate in France is actually fairly decent.

Like they're still reproducing at a kind of normal rate.

They're like 1.9 births per women, which is fairly high by sort of Western standards,

even though it's below replacement rates.

Right now, Germany is like 1.6.

The United States is kind of around the German number.

We're like 1.8, 1.782, somewhere in there.

So France is the healthiest in terms of demographics. They're also importing a huge young population from northern Africa, the big Moroccan

population coming in, Libyan population coming into France as well. Their economy doesn't allow

them to really grow at extraordinarily rapid rates. They do obviously have nuclear weapons,

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