Ben Shapiro Explains Basic Biology to a College Student — Transcript

Full transcript

1. 0:00hey Ben I'm been waiting for a long time
2. 0:02um I've kind of for this moment yeah
3. 0:06well I've kind of pondered how to ask
4. 0:07this but um how does your view of
5. 0:09transgender issues work when STI
6. 0:11scientific anti-realism as a concept
7. 0:14exists you're going to have to explain
8. 0:16that one all right so scientific
9. 0:18anti-realism is the concept that when
10. 0:20you see me you see you know my skin my
11. 0:23hands everything about me but you do not
12. 0:25see my cells you do not see my atoms you
13. 0:28do not see the things that make up the
14. 0:30things they are just physical so there
15. 0:31is no really true way to prove other
16. 0:33than by hitting me obviously um that I
17. 0:36am right here if it is only us two
18. 0:38talking um so therefore this would apply
19. 0:41to um any gendering things including
20. 0:44interex um which can have an XX or XY
21. 0:47chromosome and have Androgen or um
22. 0:49estrogen insensitivity um so uh so I
23. 0:53just need you to narrow this down is the
24. 0:54argument that things that that we don't
25. 0:56understand the nature of things because
26. 0:57we don't have microscopes and therefore
27. 1:00we can't determine sex I I would like to
28. 1:03narrow it down to
29. 1:06um we cannot fully identify a gender of
30. 1:09a person right when we see them so
31. 1:12therefore um I believe that it is not
32. 1:15within my own individual liberty to
33. 1:17gender that person okay so okay so so
34. 1:20here's my problem with that particular
35. 1:21argument the answer is that in 99.8%
36. 1:2499.9% of cases you absolutely can gender
37. 1:26somebody based on looking at them like
38. 1:28really if if you're going to use
39. 1:30intersex people as an example of not
40. 1:32being able to do that this does not
41. 1:34obviate the biological duality of sex
42. 1:36upon which all progeneration is based
43. 1:38for all of human history and for all
44. 1:39Maman species so interex people do not
45. 1:42invalidate the concept of sex as a
46. 1:44generality interex people are people who
47. 1:46have a biological anomaly and by the way
48. 1:49in most cases of interex those people
49. 1:51still manifest as either a male or a
50. 1:53female so the the the idea that interex
51. 1:56exists does not invalidate the idea that
52. 1:58there is a male and that there is a
53. 1:59female or that in the the in nearly all
54. 2:01cases I can tell the difference between
55. 2:02a male and a female again I'm not saying
56. 2:05by the way that if you can show me your
57. 2:07chromosomal charts that you are actually
58. 2:09not a male when you say that when I say
59. 2:11that you're a male that I should stick
60. 2:13with that biological objective standard
61. 2:15like my my perception of you in other
62. 2:17words is subject to my correct
63. 2:20enunciation of an objective standard so
64. 2:23the objective standard here's the here's
65. 2:24the deal for all of human history there
66. 2:26was an objective standard between male
67. 2:27and female it was for the most for for
68. 2:30nearly all of human history out of
69. 2:32partial ignorance and partially because
70. 2:33this is usually true it was out of
71. 2:34genetic it was out of simply looking at
72. 2:36people's genitals and assessing them
73. 2:38based on their outward appearance right
74. 2:39which is still true for nearly all human
75. 2:41beings on planet Earth at all times
76. 2:44okay is that you can't really describe
77. 2:47someone without secondary sex
78. 2:48characteristics and gender them into
79. 2:50something well I mean you can based on
80. 2:52primary sex characteristics if you can
81. 2:53see their genitals doctors do this
82. 2:55literally at Birth all the time right so
83. 2:57this is so the so so but but but your
84. 3:01point is correct if somebody was was
85. 3:02male dressed as a female and I
86. 3:04misgendered them and then they said oh
87. 3:05look I'm male zip right then I would say
88. 3:08correct then then correct I would say
89. 3:12for all of human history you a male now
90. 3:14the standard is chromosomal right it's
91. 3:16the it's the srn Gene and all of this
92. 3:18there is some objective standard in
93. 3:20other words by which we can determine
94. 3:21sex the problem I have with the
95. 3:22transgender argument is that people are
96. 3:24arguing that there is no objective
97. 3:25standard that no objective standard
98. 3:27exists by which I can determine sex and
99. 3:28in fact sex is completely subjective I
100. 3:30can determine my own gender based on no
101. 3:33biology and in fact in in abeyance of
102. 3:36biology I can have every single
103. 3:38biological characteristic of a male and
104. 3:40if I say I am female then I am female
105. 3:42this is anti-scientific nonsense no yes
106. 3:45Caitlyn Jenner had every biological
107. 3:46characteristic of a male there is no
108. 3:48evidence whatsoever that Caitlyn Jenner
109. 3:49was a female because Caitlyn Jenner was
110. 3:51an Olympic Athlete as a male with all of
111. 3:54the chromosomes and all of the junk and
112. 3:56all of it right that is it that is a
113. 3:58biological male and then we are supposed
114. 3:59to believe that Caitlyn Jenner is a
115. 4:00female listen I'm happy to call Caitlyn
116. 4:01Jenner Caitlyn because people can
117. 4:03legally change their name if I were out
118. 4:04to dinner with Caitlyn Jenner I wouldn't
119. 4:06go out of my way to say Caitlyn Jenner
120. 4:07is a he because why would I want to have
121. 4:09a bad dinner with somebody but if I'm
122. 4:11speaking in public with folks and I'm
123. 4:13talking about the presence of sex
124. 4:15there's not a biologist work their salt
125. 4:17on planet Earth who would say that sex
126. 4:19does not exist yeah I agree so if sex
127. 4:22exists then what are the characteristics
128. 4:23of Sex and the problem with biological
129. 4:25anti-realism or scientific anti-realism
130. 4:27as you're suggesting is that there is no
131. 4:28actual standard of sex that it's
132. 4:30completely
133. 4:33malleable not it's okay we sorry do you
134. 4:36have a quick response I don't want to
135. 4:37cut you off um I'm not saying that sex
136. 4:40is malleable I'm saying there is male
137. 4:43and female biologically that is true yes
138. 4:45right but I'm saying that gender is a
139. 4:46spectrum I'm saying that there is at
140. 4:48least male female and non-binary because
141. 4:50of this strange and what what I'm saying
142. 4:52is that there's a there's a there's a
143. 4:53word game that goes on when people
144. 4:55discuss gender because if we are talking
145. 4:57about certain characteristics which we
146. 4:58attribute to Mas or feminine if you want
147. 5:00to say that there's a genetic male with
148. 5:02feminine characteristics we're fine
149. 5:04that's a male with feminine
150. 5:05characteristics fine that's fine I mean
151. 5:08okay so you're a man with feminine
152. 5:10characteristics that's cool who cares
153. 5:12okay but if but that doesn't make you a
154. 5:14woman in other words if you are going
155. 5:16what we are now doing is we're playing a
156. 5:17semantic game where we say a male with
157. 5:18feminine characteristics is a woman
158. 5:20that's nonsense or a woman with male
159. 5:22characteristics masculine
160. 5:23characteristics is a man that's nonsense
161. 5:25too and by the way it actually ends up
162. 5:27misgendering a lot of people who are are
163. 5:29just Butch women or or a feminite men
164. 5:32yeah agree right so all of the so in
165. 5:34other words by trying to separate out
166. 5:35gender and sex completely and then by
167. 5:38using terms like male and female or
168. 5:39woman and man that are innately
169. 5:42connected to sex what you are doing is
170. 5:44deliberately not you what people are
171. 5:45doing is deliberately confusing the
172. 5:47issue such that you get idiocies like
173. 5:49ilhan Omar writing to the powerlifting
174. 5:51Association of the USA saying that a
175. 5:54transgender woman who is a biological
176. 5:55male should be able to compete against
177. 5:57biological women because it is a myth
178. 5:59that men can pick up heavier objects
179. 6:00than women that is not a myth that's
180. 6:02called
181. 6:03science thank
182. 6:08you