DeGrasse Tyson Defends Gender Studies: ‘Today I Feel 80% Female, 20% Male, I’m Going to Put on Makeup’

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DeGRASSE TYSON: "My point is, apparently the XX/XY chromosomes are insufficient, because when we wake up in the morning, we exaggerate whatever feature we want to portray the gender of our choice, either the one you’re assigned, the one you choose to be, whatever it is. And so now — so now, just to tie a bow on this, I say to you, somewhere I read, somewhere — I think I read that the United States was a land where we have the pursuit of happiness. Suppose, no matter my chromosomes, today I feel 80% female, 20% male, I'm gonna put on makeup. Tomorrow I might feel 80% male, I’ll remove the makeup and I'll wear a muscle shirt. Why do you care? What business is it of yours to require that I fulfill your inability to think of gender on a spectrum?"