'How Many Genders Are There?': John Kennedy Questions Human Rights Campaign Chief About Gender

Senator Kennedy thank you Mr chairman and thanks to all of our our Witnesses here today Ms Robinson I I want to follow up by trying to understand your answer to one of Senator Cruz's questions and if this is really a question not a suggestion do I understand your position to be that there are two Sexes but there can be more than two genders um I wouldn't even say two and you know we've got Dr Lopez here as well but there's also a definition of intersex I think that often these conversations were conflating sex and gender and I do want to affirm here that trans women are are women that is their gender but I'm trying to understand do you make a distinction between sex and gender yes sir okay explain that just do you think there are more than two sexes um I believe that there's a definition for intersex as well that I want to acknowledge but sex is a scientific I'm just trying to understand I'm thoroughly confused so you're you're born I'm talking about biology male female and what else I believe that intersex is also acknowledged but again I'm not a doctor here what I can't and what is intersex mean is that there's a difference between sex and gender and I think in these conversations we're conflating the two well but but I want to start with sex okay there's male there's female when a baby is born before the baby has had time to to even have a sense of self there's male female and intersex because the third I believe that is true but I would defer to Dr Lopez as I'm not a physician okay um and how many genders are there I think the gender is expansive and the definitions are always growing you know today I can tell you more than young people that talk about non-binary and more than five I think the gender is not a binary is what I'm trying but they're more than five gender I'm just trying to understand there are more than five genders well I mean I think that there was a time where women wearing pants didn't feel like it was appropriate for their gender and yet I'm wearing pants today I think that there are ways are there more than five I wouldn't subject myself to naming how many genders there are but what I can say is reflection excuse me there's an infinite number of genders I think depending on your culture there are a lot of different genders that that exist and I can also say that it's a term that's evolving if you look at young people today they really don't lean into the binary of only woman and man so I think that it's incumbent upon us not to legislate on this but create space for them to explore what their identities are what their gender identities are let's get back to Athletics I think I understand what you're saying there are three sexes male female and intersex I believe that to be true but again I'm not a physician and they're an infinite number of genders because gender is a mental State gender is about expression and I think that there are a variety of ways that you can express your gender okay so there's infinite number all right let's go back to the to the biology male female boy girl okay biologically do males have an advantage over females biologically in sports again I'm not a physician and I I can't speak to that what's your real world experience um it depends I mean there are some people who are born male that I'm faster than if I were to Sprint against them and some that I'm not some males are taller than some women that are biological male has a physical advantage in sports over a biological female not as a definitive statement give me an example well no I I don't think how how many female members of the NBA do you see well I can say that you know there's been this news article about men that think that they could beat Serena Williams in tennis right that they think that they could actually score a point on her um and it's just not the case she is stronger what's your experience been male female both Serena and Venus lost to the 203rd ranked male tennis player which they're phenoms for women my experience my husband he swam at University of Kentucky as well in terms of accolades and in terms of national ranking I was a much better swimmer than him he could kick my butt any day of the week without trying I I think Miss Robinson I just I've tried to understand where you're coming from I think you lose a lot of credibility when you don't concede that a biological male has physical advantages over a biological female I mean I just think that's a proven fact and you really hurt your credibility I understand you you want the world to be a better place I do too and I don't think people ought to be discriminated against be because of an immutable characteristic I don't um and I think that um I think everybody ought to be free to be themselves and what you do in your bedroom or what I do in my bedroom with a consenting adult is Nobody's Business but if what I do in in my bedroom with a consenting adult if I decide I want to tell somebody's child about it then then other people have rights too and I think parents have rights and I think biological females have rights to be able to compete fairly in sport in in in in in in in in sports so I really I really think you hurt your credibility when you refuse to acknowledge that biological males have an advantage over biological females it kind of makes me wonder about all your testimony thank you Mr chairman I'm sorry go ahead did um I I what I am trying to say is that there is not a definitive advantage in all cases sir I don't know if you believe that you could beat Serena Williams in tennis but I probably think that that's not the case there are not all cases where all men are physically Superior to all women and at the end of the day in this conversation we're not talking about that we're talking about trans women who are in fact women who deserve to play in a gender that matches their Sports who deserve all the benefits that misgaines is talking about it has a cisgender black woman I can say definitively that my Womanhood is not threatened by a transgender person asserting hers as well senator hirono thank you Mr chairman I thank all of the persons who are testifying today for Ms Robinson do you know what

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