‘A boy has a penis, a girl has a vagina’ he says
On Tuesday CNN ran a news report about transgender rights and they claimed you cannot determine a person’s gender identity at birth. They claimed that there was no consensus criteria for assigning gender roles at birth. Republican Senator John Kennedy went ahead to Fox News’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” to make the matter clear.
“I can’t believe we’re discussing this, Tucker,” Kennedy said. He then gave a biology lesson on the matter. “The person who wrote that is entitled to his opinion, but in my opinion, I think he’s been in lockdown too long.”
“Sex is the language we use to describe reproduction,” he said. “In humans, there are only two sexes — male and female. Males have the potential to produce sperm; females have the potential to produce ova. These are observable physical characteristics. Sex is not a spectrum. It’s binary; you’re either male or female.”
The senator did bring up that he knows gender dysphoria is very real — the condition where a person is confused about their born gender. He said that even with the condition existing that is the outlier and not the rule.
“Now, I do believe that gender dysphoria exists. It’s rare, maybe one in 30,000 males, one in 100,000 females,” he said. “Gender dysphoria is not an observable physical characteristic. It’s an internal feeling. It’s an internal feeling that a person of one sex has when he internally identifies with another sex.”
The senator then stated that, “It’s very easy to tell a boy from a girl. A boy has a penis, a girl has a vagina. Those are physical characteristics.”
Fox News host Tucker Carlson praised Kennedy for his statement on the subject, saying it was the “clearest” and most “reasonable” explanation of reality he has heard in a long time.
In the interview, Kennedy also explained why the Equality Act — recently passed by the Democratic-controlled House — is not a good idea.
The senator argued that it is not about whether there more than two genders, saying that fact is very much settled. “Rather it’s about power and government.”
“It’s about to what extent are the American people willing to give government, the bureaucracy, the managerial elite the authority to regulate every aspect of our lives — education, religion, public accommodation, speech — in order to elevate the status of those who either have or claim to have gender dysphoria,” he said.
“For example,” he continued. “To what extent are Americans willing to give government the authority to require schools to make teenage girls in a junior high locker room, shower and change clothes with a biological boy who either has or claims to have gender dysphoria? To what extent are Americans willing to give government the authority to require all women’s sports programs to make women compete with much stronger biological males who identify or claim to identify with females?”