British journalist Piers Morgan and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson debated on Friday whether sports should be divided by gender.
Morgan, “Piers Morgan uncensoredRevisiting a November exchange between Tyson and comedian Bill Maher, Maher criticized the astrophysicist for not acknowledging the differences between men and women in sports. Journalists played clips of previous clashes and urged Tyson to acknowledge gender differences, but floated a theory that the sport could be divided by hormone levels rather than gender, which Morgan dismissed. (Related article: “Make being too woke a reversible crime'': Bill Maher slams Democrats for leftist “problem in one word'')
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“What I see is that sports is at the forefront of how we deal with transgender people on this frontier. are now making this up: Imagine that the future of sports is not to distinguish between genders, but to distinguish and categorize people by their hormone ratios,'' Tyson said. “I'm making this up, 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. .”
“That's ridiculous. Neil, that's ridiculous,” Morgan replied.
Tyson disagreed, pointing out that wrestlers are divided by weight. Morgan countered that a male boxer would beat a female boxer even in the same weight class.
“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. .”
“Sustain. You misquoted me in this very interview. What I was saying was the idea of creating categories within sports and dividing them up – in the example I gave earlier, hormone ratios. Like — it's not fundamentally weird compared to dividing wrestlers by weight,” Tyson replied. “Because the only reason you do this is to create an interesting contest.”
Morgan said Tyson “doesn't acknowledge the superior biology of men” and said it's not just hormones that matter in sports.
“I also think if you want to have a separate category, you should have a transgender category. Or have trans women compete with men, that's the biology of trans women,” he added. “Isn't that the only way to solve it scientifically?”
Tyson admitted there was “no solution” to the problem.
“I do. Either there's a transgender category, or you put trans women in competition with biological men, that's who they are,” Morgan argued, and Tyson also said that's a possible solution. I admitted that I have sex.
In April, the National Association of Collegiate Athletics announced that only biological women can participate in women's sports at the more than 240 colleges it represents. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona steadfastly refused to answer questions about whether physical differences exist between men and women during a hearing in April.
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