On a recent episode of Piers Morgan Uncensored, Neil deGrasse Tyson sparred with Piers Morgan about including trans athletes in women's sports.
“What I see is that sports is on the frontier of how to deal with the frontier of transgender people,” Tyson said. “How to solve that is at the forefront. And I'm making this up right now. Imagine that in the future of sports, there's no gender distinction. We don't differentiate and categorize people by their hormone ratios. is.”
Tyson continued, “This is a hoax, but imagine if it were. It would be interesting. If you take a hormone test and you're in that range, you're competing with other people in the same range.” I will.”
Morgan retorted without thinking. Neil, that's strange. ”
“No, it's not! I'll tell you why it's not,” Tyson replied.
Morgan tried to clarify why Tyson's idea was ridiculous.
“I say this out of respect because I love you, but it looks to me like you're in a little bit of a hole with this and you're trying to get out of it,” Morgan said. Ta. “And now you're proposing a slightly crazy cat theory, but to me the science is clear. You've already laid out the best argument I've heard for why we separate the sexes. .”
Tyson revealed that he believes men are, on average, bigger, faster and stronger than women.
“Overall yes,” Tyson said. “There's no dispute about that. It's just objective truth.”
Tyson continued, “Now we have to ask ourselves: Why do we watch sports in the first place?” We like that the contest is fair and we don't know who will win. That's what makes sports so interesting. ”
“When we have a wave of trans women monopolizing sports over other women, all of those sports are going to become less interesting based on the way we all watch sports.”
