The Charlie Kirk Show - From the Archive: “A Positive, but Tough Female Conservative Movement” — Charlie’s YWLS 2023 Speech

Episode Date: May 24, 2026

In another archival women’s summit appearance, Charlie gives a strong call to 2,500+ young women to lead the conservative movement forward in ways that only they can. He provides guidance on how to fight back against feminism, the trans ideology, and a selfish culture. Watch every episode ad-free on members.charliekirk.com!    Get new merch at charliekirkstore.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country fighting for the future of our republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You've got to stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start a turning point USA college chapter. Go start a turning point you would say high school chapter.

Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade. Most important decision I ever made in my life and I encourage you to do the same. Here I am. Lord, use me. Buckle up, everybody.

Here we go. Noble Gold Investments is the official gold sponsor of the Charlie Kirk Show, a company that specializes in gold IRAs and physical delivery of precious metals. Learn how you could protect your wealth with noble gold investments at noble goldinvestments.com. That is noble goldinvestments.com. Thank you, everybody. Please take a seat. Give it up for Alex. That's not easy to open up a conference like that. That is not easy. You know, I told Alex backstage, I don't know what that is. I told Alex, she should have picked

more controversial topics to open a conference with. It's coming out on birth control and daycare. He said, wow, that takes a lot of courage and a lot of gusto, Alex. You deserve a lot of credit for that, I got to tell you. That's really something. Welcome to our eighth annual Young Women's Leadership Summit, everybody. This is a very special event, and I have to make sure I do this every time we gather, we have to thank the tireless efforts of our Turning Point USA staff that make this all possible. And I tell you, they have been here all week from the graphic designers to the video editors, to the AV team, to people that are doing just the muscle work of putting all this together.

They have worked so hard to make sure you have a memorable couple days. and so when you see them thank them. Who here is this your first ever young women's leadership summit? That is so amazing. First ever. Okay, so I'm going to ask another question because like Alex, I'm going to have some homework, but I'm going to be even more direct, okay? Who here traveled and you don't know anybody in this room?

Raise your hand. Okay, so keep your hand up. If you do know somebody, go find somebody at their hand up and introduce yourself. Because here's what we're not going to do, okay? You know we have a mensel. summit now at Turning Point USA. And it's very different than our woman summit. It's very different. It's in the woods and it deprived the calories. There's no disco ball. It's a whole thing. I will say though that our women's summit is different in a couple different ways.

I'll tell you about it. One of the things is that it tends to be a little clicky. You ever see mean girls? Okay, that's what that's what I mean. We're not going to do the clicky thing. Okay. So I am telling you to go out of your comfort zone, if you are here with a friend, to go find someone that does not know a soul here that was bold enough and courageous enough to travel halfway around the country and you're going to go introduce themselves so that tomorrow when I ask that question, no one raises their hand. Okay? We're going to do that tonight and you're going to act on that. Okay? Now, we do some of the biggest events in the whole country, right? We do our Amfest,

America Fest in Phoenix, which has become this amazing event. You should all attend. It's incredible. It's very interesting, though, because at the Women's Summit, it's very different than America Fest. You know, I read audiences. I've given a couple speeches in my life. And at Amfest or at SAS or at any one of our events, the young ladies and the young

men, you know, they're paying attention, but their heads are kind of moving to the side a little bit. Are you looking at me and you know, okay, good, got it, I'm looking at you. And at the Women's Summit, you guys are just focused on the speaker. And what an amazing thing to show that this idea of women gathering together shows that there is such a thing as a woman. What an idea. Now, we live, we have a lot of press here and welcome, by the way, to all. of our media and our press. We mean that. We hope you learn something. And we know why, we know many, by the way, I mean that. I know why they're here, and I'm glad they're here. They're here because they're curious and they're fascinated and they're also confused how on earth

2,500 young conservative women will go into their bank accounts in the middle of a summer to voluntarily want to come for faith, for freedom, for family, for virtue, for the country. Right? They don't quite get it. That's all right. But all of a sudden people talking about being moms and being members of society and saving the country from this Marxist degeneracy that we're living under. They're trying to understand it. Like where does this come from? But more than that, they're curious about how we're going to handle, which is the kind of third rail issue. And if you know anything about Turning Point USA, boy, Alex certainly set the standard.

If there is a fourth rail, that's where we begin, right? So, and it's obvious because all of you are living through it. All of you see it, right? All of you have to experience it on your high school or college campuses or on TikTok. And this is new. When we had our first ever young women's leadership summit in the service of Chicago, we had 70 or 80 young ladies. And if I would have done the following thing, I said,

and we know what a woman is, people would have been like, yeah, okay. Eight years ago, it would have been incomprehensible. So what changed? What changed is that an outgrowth of modernity, and we're living in this postmodern, post-structuralist, everybody gets to decide their own truth for themselves, this social contagion that is spreading the country at a rapid pace that disguises itself as transgenderism.

And it is accelerating. It is not slowing down. You see it on equal footing outside of this whole thing. hotel. I tried my best to take down the flag, everybody. I tried my best. I failed. Okay, I'm sorry. I tried my best. I know you are all thinking it, right? What is that all about? By the way, this hotel better do something, or we're going to find another hotel, because I'm not going to come back. This is ridiculous. Right? Here I am. I see the American flag, the Texas flag, and the LG, the whatever thing. And I say, this is not right. This is an insult to all of us to our traditions and our customs.

This is not wrong. So Lauren, don't sign that contract for next year, okay? You listening? Yes, let's see what we could do. I'm not putting up with this, and you should either. And so, this is spreading. Something that's on everyone's mind right now is the housing market. Whether you're looking to buy your first home,

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marriage is one man, one woman. I'm very clear about that, okay? And, but I think many of you probably have a built-in temperament. I'm not here to over-police your personal life if you're an adult. I don't agree with it. I don't believe it's right. But live and let live. That doesn't exist. Live and live is dead. It's live and let us rule, is what we live under now. It's live and give me power to come after your children. And if you don't agree with me, and if you don't allow me to come after your kids, you're a bigot. And what we are seeing in this last year, which is why this young women's leadership summit, is one of the most important gatherings in the history of Turning Point USA, if not the most important,

is even since last year, when some of you were there, we have seen an all-out, deliberate, concentrated, non-stop, relentless assault on women in this country. Even more than just individual women, but on the idea of a woman, on the truce of what a woman is. In fact, we have creepy narcissistic freaks who think they are men wearing dresses to compete in sports against many of you. We have men who are terrorizing young ladies in locker rooms, and we have to accept it and tolerate it, or else they call us names. You're going to hear from some of those speakers that was exposed to that, like Riley Gaines. You're going to hear straight from her. Who has the courage to speak out against it.

And it's amazing because this woman's summit is now something where we have the largest gathering of women in the country on these ideas and this values by far. And it's about, of course, femininity and freedom and the country and all this. But it's also about sending a message through all. these speakers and through you back in your communities to say something very clearly that I could tell you what a woman is because you're looking at one. And if you are not one, stop wearing a woman face and pretending to be something that you are not. You see, women are more agreeable than men. They are. Women are less likely to ask for raises, less likely to get into to debates, it's a fact.

And that's not a negative thing. Men and women are different. And praise God, they're different. However, creepy men that have deep-seated mental problems that need treatment, okay? They need treatment. They need help. By the way, help is not more pharmaceuticals from Pfizer or AstraZeneca or Moderna or Johnson and Johnson. Help is not surgery to have them go medieval on them, okay?

Help is talking to a council that could tell them the truth, find out the root trauma, and get them back into reality. That's what help looks like. Now, is that those people are praying on you. Transgenderism, in its current form in America, is nothing more than weaponized tyrannical patriarchy to come after women. I have to hear, oh, the patriarchy, the patriarchy. You know what the true patriarchy is right now?

Men wearing woman face in female sports. That's the true patriarchy. Now, we're doing our best at Turning Point to speak out against this, to call it what it is. This has to be a female-led movement, though. And by the way, it will only be successful if it is a female-led movement. So what exactly does that look like? You have to be disagreeable on this topic.

And you might say, oh, well, you know, Charlie, it's tough and they call me names. Yes, they will. And so what? They will call you names. You are on, you are in the arena. they're trying to frame this as a civil rights issue. They're like, oh, well, this is the same thing as Martin Luther King. What an insult to Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement.

What an insult to the woman suffrage movement. No, no, this is the same old game that is repurposing itself and is replaying itself, which is there are three types of people in the world. There are infants, there are predators, and the protectors of infants. Predators will always be there. but it is the people that are supposed to protect infants from these ideas, from these social contagions. And right now, we are living under this fake religion of tolerance, and we are allowing them to steamroll our customs,

or now the Texas flag is equal to the gay flag. Where in San Francisco, they are raising up the American flag and the gay flag up simultaneously. But we were told, you have to tolerate it. It was never about tolerance, was it? No, because then it's about acceptance. We're like, well, that's weird. and then it's about celebration, mandatory celebration, and then it's about participation,

and if you're not going to participate, they're going to make your kids participate. Here's what your financial advisor won't tell you. By the time the news tells you to buy gold, it's too late. You're waiting. I get it. Everybody's waiting, waiting to see if the ceasefire holds, waiting to see if the Strait of Hormuz re-opens, waiting to see what happens next.

But gold isn't waiting for you. It moves on fear, on instability, on the unknown. known and it moves faster than you can react so while you're waiting for certainty the rest of the world is planning for what comes next you can wait or you can get prepared you can't do both remember the best time to put on a seatbelt is before the accident not after if you're ready to act reach out to my friends at noble gold investments they help americans protect their savings with precious with physical gold and silver shipped to your door or held in a tax advantage IRA no taxes no penalties to roll over a 401k or existing IRA.

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impactful way. This room can make the difference. If each and every single one of you went to social media and back in your communities, in your conversations, one truth teller can speak for the other people that are afraid that says, you know what? Get out of my locker room. Creep. Get out of my locker room. I'm not going to put up with this. You know, more than anything else, people say, you know, you got to embrace your womanhood and all that. I agree. How about let's embrace reality?

We are on team reality here. And 1960s feminism, which Alex did a great job indicting and attacking, was all about the power of the woman. And now you have Katangi Brown Jackson, who is a United States Supreme Court Justice, who has asked a question. by a sitting U.S. Senator, what is a woman? And she was unable to answer. She said, I am not a biologist. A Supreme Court justice that cannot ask what a female is or what a woman is. She had a great opportunity.

She could have said, you're staring at one, Senator. It would have been a viral moment. But no, she's captured by this trans ideology. You see, we are all currently held hostage by a small, small group. of deranged people. It's what it is. Decent, ordinary people. We now have to live to their customs, and I will prove it to you.

I'll prove it to you because it's not about having sympathy, which we should all have. It's not about tolerance, which is a fake pagan god of our era. No, no, no, what it really is about is reaccommodation. Why is it that we have to change our norms, our language, our customs, because one person is struggling with something. Why is it that Thomas, the man who's living under the delusion who thinks he's a woman, why couldn't he still play dress-up and take those weird drugs and go finish 185th against men and competing against people with his own bone density and muscle mass? Why couldn't he do that? He could still identify, but just compete against someone with your same

chromosomes, dude? The answer, it's because he's a cheat, because he stole it. And we let it happen, all of us, myself included. We're allowing the strong to prey on people that do not have the same sort of ability to compete in either an athletic arena or otherwise. And it's only going to continue. So that's the way of the question I think in front of us right now, many of the questions. And I want you to lean in these next couple days and ask the tough questions. I want you to meet people outside of your comfort zone and listen to all these speakers. Or anything else, I want you to understand that this is a jumping off point and a starting point to be able to make a generational impact. There is no other event like this. There is no other gathering like this where you're going to hear what you're going to hear and you have this kind of combination of speakers. This is a rarity. This is the exact opposite what you're going to hear on the Oscars or the Golden Globes or in any of that garbage that they put on television. It's the exact opposite. But you know what? I think this is actually more popular with the American people than that trash that they're putting on television. So I want to make a couple actual technical announcements. Reminder to find somebody who doesn't know anybody and introduce yourself and to make sure that nobody raises their hand when I ask tomorrow.

This is a special event. We do this every year. We're gonna have a couple of giveaways. We have an opportunity to be able to have a round table with my wife, who I think is amazing, but I'm a little biased. And I know many of you too. So a couple giveaway opportunities.

If you are motivated by something I say, or Alex says, and you say, OK, now what? Go immediately to the Turning Point USA table out there and start a chapter. Raise your hand if you're a high school or college chapter leader. raise your hand. That's awesome. I want every hand to go up by the end of this conference. We need you to go say, you know what? I'm going to start a chapter. I am going to be my campus leader.

Here's what your financial advisor won't tell you. By the time the news tells you to buy gold, it's too late. You're waiting. I get it. Everybody's waiting, waiting to see if the ceasefire holds, waiting to see if the Strait of Hormuz re-opens, waiting to see what happens next. but gold isn't waiting for you it moves on fear on instability on the unknown and it moves faster than you can react so while you're waiting for certainty the rest of the world is planning for what comes next you can wait or you can get prepared you can't do both remember the best time to put on a seatbelt is before the accident not after if you're ready to act reach out to my friends at noble gold investments they help americans protect their savings with precious with physical gold and silver ship to your door or held in a tax advantage IRA. No taxes, no penalties to roll over a 401k or existing IRA.

Give them a call at 877-646-5347. That's 877-646-3447 or visit nobelgoldinvestments.com slash kirk. That's noblegoldinvestments.com slash kirk for your free investor kit. Five minutes today can protect decades of savings. Noblegoldinvestments.com.com. slash Kirk. Here's what I can guarantee you. If you start a Turning Point USA chapter, your life will get harder. Okay? It will not be easy, but your life will get better.

You will no longer live a shallow life. You will live a deep life. Here's something that you will learn throughout the next course of the days, I hope. Is that the beautiful things require work. So yes, if you start a turning point chapter, they're going to call you names. But then look to your left and look to your right. You're not alone, not even close to being alone. If you start a Turning Point USA chapter, you're going to be on the front lines of actually making a difference for something that is bigger than yourself.

It's a big deal. So if you want to get into a contest to win a roundtable with my wife, Erica, you can start a chapter. And that's important. You should start a chapter regardless of the sweepstates. but that's just the way to hopefully get you to do it. We want to get every single one of you to say, you know what, I'm going back to my high school, I'm going to start a high school chapter,

I'm going to start a college chapter. A couple of the thoughts here. The country's in trouble, you're going to hear that a lot. What is exciting to see them is that this event is growing like crazy and is how all of a sudden the conservative movement is so different than how the media likes to portray it. They say, oh, that's just a male-dominated thing.

and again, which is hilarious because they don't believe in like male men are women. They use it, the whole thing's not insane. So, and by the way, I would be so insulted if I was a woman, if like this Mulvaney weirdo who, if he all of a sudden thinks that he could fully understand women by like, by the way, you know what's even creepier about that, dude? No, he acts as an eight-year-old, as an infant. That's even weirder, right? It's like very serious mental problems, but Fortune 100 companies seem to like that right now.

I would be so repulsed by that. Be like, you think that you can appropriate what a woman is just by dressing differently and by acting that way? I think it's so repulsive. But it's the situation in front of us is this. Here's what's so cool is that we're starting to see things change. everybody boycotting target alongside me am I right there is now a cost

to doing this and we're never going to forget for all the companies that are watching out there you embrace the social contagion we will make it hurt financially of course and then we're going to support the good guys we're going to support the companies that

take these stands and are willing to stand for what is right okay one other announcement We are filming something very exclusively on the Charlie Kirk show tomorrow. We have slots for eight people. If you're interested, we're not going to call on hands. But it's going to be really fun. It'll be kind of like a round table type thing.

So basically, I think there's going to be something coming up on stage. It's you email us if you're interested, Freedom at Charliekirk.com if you want to participate, but you have to email us proof that you're just subscribed to our podcast. And if you're not yet subscribed, just follow the QR code that's up to you're that's up on the screen or coming up on the screen. It's going to be really fun. It's going to be unscripted, and it'll be a chance to kind of hear from you what you're experiencing on the front lines and what you're going through. And so hopefully we can get that up there. And if not, just please subscribe to our

podcast and email us, freedom at charliekirk.com, if you want to get engaged and get involved in that. So if that comes up, great. If not, we'll do it a different time. All right, I'll say this in closing. Take this all in. This event changes. his lives if you want it to change your life. If you are open to the career opportunities, the friendships, the networking opportunities, there might be someone right here might be dealing with a lot at home, depression or anxiety, isolation, loneliness, and all of a sudden you might hear a one-liner from a speaker that might change your life. And we are here at Turning Point USA to serve you to help make those moments happen. And if you're going through something

difficult. Please go to a staff member. We love to help you through all that. And a positive, optimistic, but also tough female conservative movement is the left's worst nightmare. And that's why you're good. God bless all of you. Thank you so much. Thank you. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliecirk.com.