Someone needs to tell MSNBC “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd you don’t need a master’s degree to know biological gender exists after he devolved into embarrassing credentialism during this Sunday’s program.
During an interview with GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, Todd called into question observable and irrefutable reality after Ramaswamy accurately described gender dysphoria as a “mental health disorder” and supposed “gender-affirming care” for children as “cruel.”
“There isn’t a state in this union that allows you to smoke an addictive cigarette before the age of 18, that allows you to get a tattoo before the age of 18,” said Ramaswamy. “[‘Gender affirming care’ is ] a body-altering change that a kid may later regret in life.”
In response, Todd proceeded to ask Ramaswamy whether he is “confident” that “gender is as binary” and “isn’t a spectrum?” When Ramaswamy affirmed he is confident in the biological distinction between men and women, Todd interjected, asking Ramaswamy whether he “know[s] this as a scientist?”
“Well, there’s two X chromosomes if you’re a woman, and an X and a Y, that means you’re a man,” Ramaswamy stated.
Of course, Ramaswamy is correct, and it doesn’t take a scientist or even an adult, for that matter, to know it. The child from the hit 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger film “Kindergarten Cop” explains it in even simpler terms for Todd: