Ben Carson does not suffer liberal fools easily. As Katie Couric just found out on Yahoo News. She thought she had him in a gotcha question but he turned the tables and shut her down with an artful defense of common sense.
Even liberals have a hard time arguing with common sense, but they do try, don’t they?
Speaking about transgender people Carson said,
“We have known what a man is and what a woman is for thousands of years,” Carson said. “And all of a sudden, we don’t know what they are anymore. I said, ‘That is absurd.’”
Hard to argue with the good Doctor. Ben continued,
“There are biological markers that tell us whether we are a male or a female, and just because you wake up one day and you say, ‘I think I’m the other one,’ that doesn’t change it. Just, a leopard can’t change its spots.”
Couric said that many transgender people she has interviewed over the years claim they feel trapped in the wrong body.
“It’s not as if they woke up one day and decided, ‘I’m going to be a male or I’m going to be a female,’” she said.
“But it doesn’t change their genetics,” Carson countered. “It doesn’t change their biology because of the way that they feel. Now if they want to pursue whatever they need to pursue in order to get where they need to be, that’s fine. But the way that you feel that morning does not physically change who you are.”
When Katie asked him if there should be tolerance for the transgender community, Carson said “of course” but also said that “tolerance goes in both directions.”
“Our Constitution protects everybody in every group to have equal rights, but nobody has extra rights,” he said. “Nobody gets to redefine everything for everybody else and then make them comply to it. That’s not tolerance”