A video of a transgender man completely roasting conservative commentator Ben Shapiro to his face in response to Shapiro’s antagonistic views towards transgender people is going viral on X.
The video comes from the YouTube channel Jubilee and it shows Shapiro debating 25 Kamala Harris supporters. Midway through the video, one supporter – podcaster and LGBTQ+ advocate Shane Ivan Nash – takes the chair and begins to immediately ask Shapiro a few questions.
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He asks Ben whether men can get pregnant, whether men can experience sexual assault, whether he benefits from white supremacy, and about the existence of transgender men. After Ben responds with his views, Nash begins to tear into Shapiro.
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“I’m a transgender man, I’ve experienced SA [sexual assault], and abortion rights affect me directly. So, if we’re talking about the American dream, why do I not have access to that? Because there is no legislation in the history of America that legislates a man’s body, so why does mine have to be legislated? I’ve got a vagina.”
“Um… I’m not interested in what your genitalia are,” Shapiro replies.
“Clearly you are, I mean it’s all over everything you make buddy,” Nash replies to a roomful of laughter.
“Radically, I am not, I think you can read on my face that I am not,” Shapiro said.
“No, you can present it here, but in most of the content that you have, you attack my community constantly. And you don’t even realize guys like me exist, who actually share a lot of similarities to you. Because I’m a married man of 20 years.”
Shapiro then proceeds to misgender Nash, who visibly has a full beard, a deep voice, and who Shapiro previously called a “bro” when he was sitting down, before Nash asks if Shapiro believes that Nash should carry a child to term if he was sexually assaulted.
Shapiro is immediately lost for words and tries to claim that Nash is “moving around terminology very wildly here.” Nash replies to a roomful of applause, “And so are you, because that’s the tactics you play in your game. You’ve done it the entire time, you jump from one subject to the next, you speak so fast. I know how you work, so how does it feel to have it in your face?” Shapiro is well known for speaking fast and changing topics quickly to make it harder for people to refute his arguments.
“I’m sick and tired of the s**t that you have put against my community, especially Black trans women, because you constantly disregard all of our needs, and then use us as politically pawn when we’re 1% of the population. Why not focus on the economy itself? All of us are struggling, and you want to focus on trans people, you want to focus on a Black woman, when this is clearly a glass cliff situation. America’s falling apart, and let’s give it to women right when it’s falling apart. We’ve had 50 men run it and it looks like s**t. Look at where we are at?”
Nash continues to discuss how Shapiro benefits from white supremacy and how forcing women to give birth to children relies heavily on the patriarchy.
“I’m so sick of you coming in with your bravado, acting like this big guy who knows things because you talk fast, you have statistics. But really, what does it matter at the end of the day if you are harming the entire American [population]. [Trump] has been accused of rape in court documents,” said Nash while exasperated, referring to the jury that found that Trump sexually abused author E. Jean Carroll. “You’re backing the guy. You have children. How could you do that to your own… don’t you have a daughter? Like what is wrong with you, dude?”
The debate then pauses shortly after that. Nash reaches out his hand to Shapiro, saying, “Pleasure to meet you, you d**k,” before pulling his hand away right as Shapiro goes up to shake his hand. Nash walks away silently as the crowd is shocked.
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