NBC’s Chuck Todd went to war with reality while interviewing Vivek Ramaswamy.
During a discussion on banning transgender surgeries for minors, Todd appeared perplexed that anyone could possibly oppose the chemical castration of minors, asking “How do you know [you’re right about this]? Are you confident that you know that gender is as binary as you're describing it? Are you confident?”
“I am,” Ramaswamy replied to the easiest question he’d ever been asked in his life. Todd then asked Ramaswany, who has a degree in biology and founded a biopharmaceutical company, if he knows this “as a scientist.”
When Ramaswamy attempted to explain what chromosomes are, Todd chimed in to claim that “There is a lot of scientific research that says gender is a spectrum,” without citing a single piece of this elusive evidence, or naming a third (or fourth, fifth, etc.) gender that he thinks exists.
Fired back that “We've created a culture that teaches parents that they're being bigoted or that they're bad people if they don't actually take those steps. Gender Dysphoria for the rare few people who've suffered it, is a condition of suffering. My question is why on Earth are we going out of our way to create even more of it?”
Matt Palumbo is the author of Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers: How the Left Hijacked and Weaponized the Fact-Checking Industry and The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros
