Watch Bill Maher's face when Neil deGrasse Tyson refuses to define a 'man'

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Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast has certainly stayed true to its name by hosting an array of random characters.

One of the latest is Neil deGrasse Tyson, who believes so much in science that he can’t define what a man is.

“What is it that makes the man the man? Is it the hormones? OK, if it’s the hormones, and you decide to give yourself a different cocktail of hormones,” Tyson tells a laughing and then stunned Maher, “... maybe the track meets have hormone categories.”

Maher notes that giving yourself hormones can be harmful to your health, but Tyson has another “scientific answer.”

“You’re so deeply concerned about the health of the people who are trying to find their place on the gender spectrum? You care about their health so much that you don’t want them to go through that?” Tyson rants.

Maher admits, “It’s not something that keeps me up at night, but when the subject comes up, I care about them like I care about all people.”

Dave Rubin is impressed with Maher’s way of handling the conversation. When Tyson attempts to keep the fight going without making a point, Maher shuts it down.

“At that moment, he’s proving that the good liberal can still exist,” Rubin says. “Tyson is trying to dismiss him like you don’t really care about these gender-confused people.”


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Team USA World Masters track athlete Cynthia Monteleone issued a scathing rebuke against including biological men — specifically transgender women — in women's sports.

What are the details?

In a lengthy essay for Fox News, Monteleone, who has competed in various world championships and is also a track coach, said that if biological males continue to compete on women's sports teams, it will mean the end of women's sports as we know it.

"I’m standing for the protection of women’s sports," she wrote. "At the 2018 World Masters Athletics Championships in Málaga, Spain, I competed in the 200-meter race against a male-bodied athlete, whom I beat by only a few tenths of a second. The next year, the same athlete beat my teammate in the hurdles for a place on the podium at the 2019 World Championship indoor meet in Poland. My teammate had trained harder than anyone I know."

Monteleone said that the trend continues: Her daughter, a high school-age track star in her own right, was defeated by a biological male identifying as a female in her first ever high school track race.

"I had watched proudly as my strong and determined girl did all the right things – made personal, difficult sacrifices to train her body to be as fast and fit as possible for her first race," she wrote. "Yet all her hard work seemed to drift away along with the male-bodied athlete, who had just transferred from the boys’ volleyball team to the girl’s team the season before. The athlete breezed right by her to win first place, leaving her to finish second."

Monteleone added, "How can you win as a female when you’re lined up next to a male body whose strength, heart and lung capacity, and pace are all greater than your own no matter what the 'treatment'?"

She pointed out that the impact of biological men competing against women in women's sports takes more than just a physical toll on female competitors — and often has a detrimental impact on girls' and women's mental health. Further, women biologically have next to no chance of holding any kind of physical advantage over males when it comes to competition sports.

Monteleone added that even when biological males suppress their hormones, they are still 12% faster than their biologically female counterparts — and that's after two years.

"The most important factor is the psychological toll. Many of the girls I coach suffer from anxiety over having to compete against male-bodied athletes. We all know the powerful scientific neurotransmitter connection between our minds and our bodies: When you think you can win, you have a better chance of doing it. It’s proven," she continued. "Yet those of us who dare speak out that competing against males is unfair are told, 'Oh, it’s not that big of a deal. It doesn’t happen that often. Just keep your mouth shut and be quiet.' That’s what I was told when I raised questions as to the unfairness of running next to a male-bodied athlete at the World Masters."

Monteleone said that she's tired of remaining quiet on the local and international stage, and is fearlessly standing up in support of protecting women's sports.

"[K]now this: There is a groundswell," she warned. "From my very own daughter raising her voice along with the young track stars Chelsea Mitchell, Selina Soule, and Alanna Smith in Connecticut, to Lainey Armistead, who plays soccer in West Virginia, to the female swimmers at the University of Pennsylvania who are stressed by the presence of a male in their locker room (not to mention the women who compete, and often lose, against this male-bodied swimmer)."

Monteleone said that the "chorus of voices" protesting against biological male inclusion will soon drown out any other narrative other than the one standing to preserve the sanctity of women's sports.

"Female athletes deserve their chance to receive accolades, awards, and scholarships," she insisted. "We must raise our voices on behalf of fairness and equal opportunity for all women, before the entire category of women’s sports is erased."

Piers Morgan calls to end ‘trans sport insanity’ before it ends up killing women



British commentator and former CNN host Piers Morgan castigated the idea of biological males competing in women's sports as transgender women after a special forces combat veteran demolished a biologically female MMA fighter during a Friday match.

What are the details?

In a blistering op-ed published in the Daily Mail, Morgan pointed to Friday's fight in which transgender fighter Alana McLaughlin, 38, used a "powerful chokehold" on a fellow MMA fighter who happened to be a biological female.

McLaughlin, a special forces combat veteran, defeated 32-year-old Celine Provost after placing her in a match-winning chokehold on Friday. The Friday match was McLaughlin's debut as a MMA fighter. McLaughlin easily ended the fight just three minutes and 32 seconds into the second round.

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"It made me sick to watch a once-male special forces combat veteran beat up a woman on TV," he wrote. "It's time to stop this trans sport insanity before women start being killed."

McLaughlin, who took up MMA training earlier in 2021, fought against Provost, who has competed in the extreme sport for at least a decade, but as Morgan pointed out, Provost simply "couldn't compete with the overwhelming physical strength of her opponent."

Instead, Provost was barely able to leave a mark on McLaughlin, who was once a muscle-bound special forces operative.

"At this point let me be clear: McLaughlin was a war hero, rising through Army ranks to become a special forces medical sergeant who went to serve in Afghanistan in 2007 as part of an elite, 12-man team," Morgan wrote. "There, she helped save many lives as she treated IED casualties in a highly dangerous combat zone. I have huge respect for her military service, during which she was awarded eight distinguished service medals."

A conflicted history

McLaughlin, who grew up in South Carolina, has said that her mother — who had a strongly religious background — disowned McLaughlin once she heard that her son would soon be her daughter.

She told the Guardian in a Wednesday interview that a neighbor's son raped her when she was just 5 years old after having been subjected to what she referred to as "masculine time" with the neighbor's sons.

In the years following the incident, McLaughlin's family reportedly sent her to various conversion therapies to change her outlook on sexuality and gender. It didn't take, McLaughlin said, and she ended up begging her parents for gender reassignment surgery from a young age.

Before shipping out to Afghanistan, McLaughlin told her mother during a particularly heated phone call, "Maybe I should just go get myself killed at war."

McLaughlin's mother reportedly snapped, "Maybe you should."

Elsewhere in the interview, McLaughlin said, "My whole life I was a runt. I was undersized, I was bullied, I was raped, I was beaten, like I did not have an easy time. The story of my life has been trying to physically resist people that were larger and stronger and more skilled than me."

'Sickening to watch'

Morgan continued, "Regardless of her military record or personal struggles growing up, none of this justifies what happened on Friday night. I found the bout sickening to watch."

"It was obvious very quickly that McLaughlin was too strong, and equally obvious that this strength came from the 33 years she spent as a biological man," Morgan continued. "As I've said before, the restrictive hormone treatment that sports authorities make transgender women do before they can compete in women's sport does not reduce muscle density or power."

Calling the disparity "potentially deadly," Morgan added that such practices would end up killing women one day.

Morgan, who added that he's always supported trans rights to fairness and equality, said that while transgender men and women deserve fair treatment across the board, allowing mixed biological sexes to compete against one another in contact sports such as MMA will only lead to danger for biological women.

"If you're in any doubt about how unfair this all is, let me take you through a brief history of what's happened when male athletes have transitioned to be women and then competed against women born with female bodies," he wrote. "In 2017, American sprinter CeCe Telfer was ranked 390th among male NCAA Division II athletes in 400m hurdles. In 2018, Telfer transitioned, and in 2019, Telfer was national NCAA Division II women's 400m champion."

He also pointed to New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, who qualified for women's tournaments and in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, Hannah Mouncey, an Australian handball player who dominated on the country's women's team after scoring zero goals in 22 appearances for the men's team, and more as examples of unfairness in competition.

"We've already seen the same unfairness manifest itself with the first transgender MMA fighter, Fallon Fox, who served in the US Navy then transitioned, became an MMA fighter, and won all but one fights," Morgan noted. "In one of them, she fractured a woman's skull. I fear worse is to come."

"[McLaughlin is] a girl born with the massive physical advantage of a male body," Morgan concluded. "Yet now she's deliberately participating in a grotesquely unbalanced physical environment for other women. It's unfair, unequal, and in the case of combat sport, incredibly dangerous. But the real crime going on here is against women's sport."

Megan Rapinoe pens essay saying banning biological males from women’s sports is 'discrimination': 'They need to be allowed to play'



Megan Rapinoe, U.S. women's soccer star, says that banning transgender women from women's sports is nothing short of discrimination.

What are the details?

In a Sunday op-ed in the Washington Post, Rapinoe, an outspoken advocate for the LGBTQ community, says that transgender women — biological males who consider themselves to be female — should not be excluded from women's sports.

As such, transgender men, she adds, ought to be permitted in men's sports.

Blasting the 25 states seeking to enact laws prohibiting transgender players from participating in sports of their chosen gender, Rapinoe wrote, "These bills are some of the most intense political assaults on LGBTQ people in recent years. Sports have become another avenue to attack the rights of trans people. These efforts cause incredible harm to trans youth, who, like all kids in a global pandemic, are feeling isolated and need compassion and support."

"Even before the pandemic hit, 1 in 3 transgender youth reported attempting suicide, as one national crisis-prevention organization reported in 2019," she added.

Such bills, she explained, are only trying to "solve a problem that doesn't exist."

"Proponents of these bills argue that they are protecting women," Rapinoe continued. "As a woman who has played sports my whole life, I know that the threats to women's and girls' sports are lack of funding, resources, and media coverage; sexual harassment; and equal pay."

Anything other than permitting transgender females from competing on women's sports teams is "discrimination," she alleged.

"Adults can't present that we care about the well-being of children while actively creating environments that cause serious harm to them," Rapinoe added. "We can't make demands for a false sense of fairness while ignoring the actual needs of women and girls."

She pointed out that transgender children deserve equal chances to enjoy playing on sports teams — no matter their gender.

"Transgender kids deserve the same chances to enjoy sports; to gain confidence, self-respect and leadership skills; and to learn what it means to be part of a team," the soccer star insisted. "When we tell transgender girls that they can't play girls' sports — or transgender boys that they can't play boys' sports — they miss out on these important experiences and opportunities. And we lose the right to say we care about children."

She concluded, "Discrimination hurts everyone. We're stronger as teams, and as a country, when all people who love sports have a chance to have their lives changed for the better, just like I did. I want every transgender kid out there to know that they can live their dreams and be true to who they are. For them to realize those dreams, they need to be allowed to play."