WATCH: Top Five Moments Of Ben Shapiro’s Speech At FSU

Daily Wire co-founder and editor emeritus Ben Shapiro spoke at Florida State University on Monday evening, fielding audience questions on topics from transgenderism to the ongoing criminal trials of Kyle Rittenhouse and the men who killed Ahmaud Arbery.

The event consisted of a speech from Shapiro and then a lengthy question-and-answer period where members of the audience were given the opportunity to get Shapiro’s opinion and analysis or attempt to stump the conservative commentator and debater. Here are the best moments from the night:

“What is a woman?”

A woman challenged Shapiro’s views on transgenderism, citing a variety of medical associations that had apparently agreed that sex and gender are completely separable. The woman asked Shapiro why “you believe you are right” given the “medical consensus for sex and gender being two different concepts?”

“Sex and gender are two different concepts, but gender is tied to biology. One of the big problems you see in the argument in favor of trans rights is this notion that gender and sex are completely separable. They are not completely separable,” Shapiro began. “If they are completely separable, then this means identifying people by their subjective gender really has no relevance as to whether they are a male or a female. Male and female are biological terms, so using terminology like male and female to describe a self-perception of maleness or femaleness is sort of a bizarre way of arguing whether a thing is a man or a woman.”

“So here’s my question – it’s an argument my friend Matt Walsh likes to make – what is a woman? Define what a woman is without reference to the word woman, please?” he asked.

The woman accused Shapiro of making a logical fallacy, a red herring, and continued to push back on his argument by returning to the “consensus” reached by the medical associations.

“Anyone who suggests that gender has no reference to biology, it’s not connected in any way to biology, is just full of s***,” Shapiro eventually said.

“If any doctor denies to me that there is a dichotomy between male and female, a sexual dichotomy between male and female, they are ignorant and they are letting their politics get in the way of their science. Anybody who suggests to you, for example, that there is such a thing as a pregnant male is not a doctor. They are an activist,” he said.

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