The Science Of Transgender Athletes
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Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2019. He is a physician, policy expert, and has spent 30 years of his life as a pediatric urologist. In this episode, Dr. Murphy talks about the science behind the differences between males and females, and why he believes there is no genetic difference between them.
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Today we have someone who I'm super excited about,
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and I think you guys will be too, because not only is he a policy expert,
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he's also a physician we are having on Dr. and Representative Greg Murphy.
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and has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2019 from North Carolina.
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Check out the interview with Representative and Dr. Greg Murphy.
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You have an interesting perspective on this issue, given your background,
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and so I want you to kind of walk us through your qualifications,
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of course, not only being a representative in the U.S. House, but also as a physician.
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I really appreciate it, and I appreciate all the hard work you've gone through
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to show that really this is interesting that we're even having this discussion,
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because we wouldn't have had it even 10 years ago.
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I do medical and surgical diseases of the kidney, bladder, prostate,
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and those kind of things, but also the male and sometimes female organs.
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And there's a small subset in pediatric urology of disorders that deal with individuals
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But, you know, through times, and I've been in practice for more than 30 years,
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it is without a doubt, medically, and I know this without a doubt,
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that there is a genetic difference in male and female, period.
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And regardless of any type of hormone supplementation or hormone blocking,
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you do not change the fundamental difference in tissue, in muscle tissue,
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It's pure politics where we're supposed to be dealing with an objective medical science,
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and that's gone out the wayside, really, in the last three or four years.
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I couldn't agree more when you say it has gotten to this point of pure politics.
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girls went through puberty typically before the boys did.
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You know, in the 11-12 age group, there were some girls who were comparable with the boys.
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But by the time we turned 13-14, that 13-14 age group,
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They had physically changed over the 11-12 age group until the 13-14.
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You just kind of went through some of the science,
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but what does this look like as it pertains to the differences between males and females,
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So, Riley, if you go back even earlier, around five, five or six,
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every young boy, every young girl goes through a transformational period of question.
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They go through who am I, what am I, and all these things.
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And the infinite majority, infinite majority settle back into their biological sex,
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And if you then look at what happens through puberty,
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this is when boys grow taller, women mature, they're younger when these things happen.
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But in puberty is when the things that are genetic differences that happen.
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You know, this is when muscles and bones especially grow and then fuse,
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And some of these things, some individuals do it stronger.
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But if you take skeletal muscle, which is the main thing that we're looking at here,
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that gives you speed, that gives you jumps off the blocks, as you say,
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the skeletal muscle in a male and a female is fundamentally different.
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And so males have an absolute athletic advantage over females.
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And it's sad that we've now had gender politics come in,
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and they try to make people feel better and say, yes, you can compete.
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But it's time and time again shows that there is no equivalency between a genetic male
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and a genetic female when it comes to the field of athletics.
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But when it comes to athletic endeavors, strength endeavors, speed endeavors,
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There was a panel just this week that got canceled.
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It was put on by the American Anthropological Association.
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It says they canceled it because discussing sex is no longer allowed at anthropology conferences.
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But I want to get your take on the International Olympic Committee's guidelines.
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Now, of course, the IOC, it pertains to Olympic sports, right?
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They say there is no presumption of advantage between the two sexes
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and that no athlete should be precluded from competing or excluded from competition
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on the exclusive ground of an unverified, alleged, or perceived unfair competitive advantage
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due to their sex, variations, physical appearance, and or transgender status.
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athletes should not be deemed to have an unfair or disproportionate competitive advantage
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due to their sex, variation, physical appearance, and or transgender status.
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I mean, this is the Olympics, and they're claiming that a male's advantage over a female's
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is unverified, alleged, and could be perceived unfair.
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I mean, as a physician and, again, as a U.S. House of Representative, what's your take on that?
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Well, Riley, it's absolutely absurd to say there's not a difference between man and a female.
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And if you go back, I mean, I'll point out to the college in your anthropology,
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If you don't agree with what the mainstream thought is,
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it goes back to the parable of the emperor's new clothes when he had nothing on,
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but everybody was afraid to say because it was all peer pressure.
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In my opinion, the whole transgender event has been the greatest peer pressure event
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ever seen in human history, because we're saying, well, if you'd question it,
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then you're bad, or the same thing going with all this equity stuff,
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that you're bad, you're a bigot, you're a racist, and all these other things.
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Fortunately, I think the pendulum, which swung way too far,
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is now swinging back for America because they see how absolutely ridiculous this is.
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Just because you psychologically believe you are a male does not make you a male.
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I'm sorry, if you're a male and you turn in and you believe you're a female,
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To just say you were just because you think you can is absolutely absurd.
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It's taking psychology as to being an objective science, which it's not,
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very subjective, and saying it's an absolute rigid science, which it's not.
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And this, in many instances, these folks who have transgender issues
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And basically, it's been shown that saying it's, hey, it's okay,
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doesn't change any of those psychiatric issues they deal with.
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And so for the IOC to say that there's no difference
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is the ultimate, ultimate in peer pressure and non-objectivity.
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to think such an august committee could say such nonsense.
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I know that, and it's the same approach that the NCAA is taking.
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And truth be told, I think it's the same approach that the Democrats are taking
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This bill was introduced in the U.S. House by Representative Suby,
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and I remember when you read your statement on the floor,
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you said just as what you said at the beginning of this podcast,
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you said, I honestly cannot believe this is an actual issue we're debating
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You even then went on to list examples of, you know,
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and you even said Michael Phelps competing against the women.
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I can tell you exactly without a doubt what the outcome would be
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meaning 203, all 203 Democrats voted in opposition of protecting women.
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It's absolute peer pressure is what they were pushed into.
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What happened to you was an absolute injustice.
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There was a mediocre male swimmer who then decided he wanted to be a female,
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No sane person, and I'll be very clear with this,
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Just because, you know, I could think I'm a rock star.
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And so just because, and I'm saying this to those people,
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you want me to assume to come into your psychology,
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which obstructs my objectivity, does not make sense.
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So, you know, you can believe what you believe,
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but you can't force me to believe what your sense of reality is.
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to believing that these people were peer pressured
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because I can't imagine a mother or a father to a young girl
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actually being okay with their daughter undressing next to a male.
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And so when all 203 Democrats voted in opposition of this,
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it broke my heart because they're really being a sellout
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But while we're on the topic of gender ideology,
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what about these procedures being performed on minors?
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and they urge legislators to stop passing bills
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banning these surgeries and hormone blockers on minors.
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cause their bones to fuse earlier, making them shorter.
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A supplement would be after they achieve puberty
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and so I certainly took my fair share of courses,