Source: townhall.com
by Matt Vespa

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro isn’t afraid of debate. He will talk with anyone of any political stripe and answer his or her questions. That is as long as those on the progressive Left doesn’t shut down his speaking engagements. One area that he seems to have zero patience for is the notion that one could think they could change something, like gender, and expect the rest of society to adapt. At Ferris State University in Michigan, during a Q&A sessions, one young student pressed Shapiro on transgender and abortion issues.

“How do you say that some people don’t have real privilege when you basically just said that trans people aren’t valid, they’re not a thing, they’re just boys pretending to be girls or girls pretending to be boys? Gender is a completely different thing,” said the student. Shapiro noted that he wasn’t denying these people their humanity, but wouldn’t partake in accepting things that aren’t “malleable”

“I am saying that you are not the sex which you claim to be,” he said. “You’re still a human being, and you’re a human being with an issue then I wish you Godspeed in dealing with it in any whatever way you see fit, but if you’re going to dictate to me that I’m supposed to pretend, I’m supposed to pretend that men are women and women are men, no.”

The student continued insisting that Shapiro thinks that trans people don’t belong. Shapiro added that he was only reaffirming societal norms that have been established since the founding of civilization regarding men and women. You have to be a Boy to be a “Boy Scout” for example.

“Where is that written, though?” asked the student.

“In the name, ‘Boy Scouts.’ Because for all of human history, boy meant boy and girl meant girl. Boy did not mean girl,” replied Shapiro.

He also threw some questions at the student, namely if she considers herself to be a moose. Also, why isn’t she 60 years old? She can think that she is, but does that make it so? No. It doesn’t. Hence, the insanity involved with thinking that you could just change something, like you age, gender, or species.

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