Bill Maher and Neil deGrasse Tyson clash over woke college campuses: ‘You should be calling them out’
nypost.comtransgender athletes.Tyson suggested that competitions like track meets could be divided into “hormone” categories like wrestling is categorized by body weight, to settle concerns about transgender men having an unfair advantage in women’s sports.“So all I’m saying is, what is it that makes the man, the ‘man’?” the scientist asked. “Is it the hormones?
OK. If it’s the hormones, and you decide to give yourself a different cocktail of hormones — I’m making this up, by the way.
I’m not saying it should happen this way. It’s a way to start thinking about it. Maybe the track meets have hormone categories.”After sighing at Tyson’s suggestion, Maher challenged Tyson to agree that cross-hormone therapy was not healthy.“Would you not admit that?
Do you think we can just safely do things like this?” he asked. Instead of answering Maher’s question, Tyson suggested the host’s concerns about the health effects of these treatments was disingenuous. “So you feel this way because you’re concerned about — you are so deeply concerned about the health of the people who try to find their place on the gender spectrum?
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