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Why do you believe you're right about trans people, given the American Psychological Association, American Medical Association, American Psychoanalytic Association? I can go on for about five more associations, um, that are very prominent and govern the, um, the existing like health, uh, health government or health industries within, um, like the major Western countries. And all of these associations have multiple thousands of doctors, sociologists, psychologists, and with PhDs in their respective fields backing the idea that sex and gender are different, effectively gaining the medical consensus for sex and gender being two different concepts. Yet you have a different opinion.
Okay, so sex and gender are two different concepts, but gender is tied to biology. So one of the big problems that, that you see in sort of the, the argument in favor of trans rights is this notion that gender and sex are completely separable. They're not completely separable. If they are completely separable, then this means that identifying people by their subjective gender really has no relevance as to whether they are a male or female. Male and female are biological terms. So using terminology like male and female to describe a self-describe, self-perception of 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 that my friend Matt Walsh likes to make. What is a woman? Define what a woman is without reference to the word "woman."
Um, so this is actually a logical fallacy called a red herring. You're asking me a question in different or, um, in order to actually challenge my question without— No, it isn't. I'm saying that it really is not. I'm saying that biology, I, I'm agreeing with you that the notion of gender, which is effeminateness or masculinity, can be different from biology in the sense that biology is just pure male or pure female. But to suggest that there is such a thing as an effeminate male is not to suggest that an effeminate male is now a woman. Transgenderism makes the argument that if you believe that you are a woman, you are therefore a woman, or if you believe that you are a man, you are therefore a man. I disagree with this. There are objective measures as to whether you're a man or a woman. There are objective measures as to whether you are male or female. You're there, there's certainly a spectrum with regard to effeminateness versus masculinity, that's certainly true. That does not change the underlying sexual dichotomy that is the basis for all human reproduction. Yeah, you can answer.
Um, right. So this dichotomy is a false dichotomy that isn't supported by any of the medical associations that I just named. Then let me explain. Medical associations that I just named off would actually support the, uh, idea that, um, gender is biological. This is something that's completely untrue. Against every single, like, medical consensus. Well, then I will just say that anyone who suggests that gender has no reference whatsoever to biology, it's not connected in any way to biology, it's just full of— Because if these things, and the reason I, and and the re, and the reason that I say, then you, then you class it, then you actually just disagree with medical consensus. Yes. Yes. I disagree with the false medical consensus driven by politically driven, quote unquote, doctors. 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 that there is such a thing, for example, as a pregnant male is not a doctor, they are an activist.
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I'm very glad that none of these opinions are actually accepted in academia and haven't been for over 70 years. Synth is here on the bottom. Okay, so the notion that they haven't been accepted for over 70 years is a bizarre one, considering they were accepted until about five minutes ago. And the basic idea that male and female do not exist runs counter to all mammalian biology, all of it, not just human. Are we to suggest that gender and and sex are different in walruses? How does this work exactly? Like, are they different in bears? Any time you have a, any time you have, all mammalian reproduction is rooted in the idea that there's a sexual dichotomy between male and female. To obscure that with all sorts of semantic word games about how you feel subjectively has no bearing on whether male and female are categories that exist. And if you're trying to define male and female with reference to any subjective category that cannot be identified by any metric whatsoever, other than how you feel today, I challenge whether that is scientific or whether that is merely a self-perception that is being guided by a political agenda. I'm sorry, I could spend more time on this, but we have to guess the next question. I appreciate it.