• powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    You’re very focused on that one person and apparently refusing to read the citations from the paper. Feel free to peruse the list of scientists that signed a statement affirming the same:

    https://projectnettie.wordpress.com/

    Or the author of Sex Redefined, which people have linked without reading:

    https://xcancel.com/ClaireAinsworth/status/888365994577735680

    Two sexes, with a continuum of variation in anatomy/physiology.

    Or another top biologist:

    I like to summarize this by saying that the biological sex definition/concept is both universal and explanatory. No other concept of sex, for example, can explain sexual selection and the differences in behavior and phenotype that appear in animals.

    It’s important to recognize that the recent reframing of the two sexes as needing revision did not result from any new discoveries about biology […]

    It is not transphobic to recognize the two sexes that biologists have known for decades, but, unfortunately, we are dealing with ideologues who are largely impervious to both facts and reason, and so the five points above are aimed largely at those who don’t know a lot about the way biologists conceive of sex.

    That’s you. You are the ideologue that is largely impervious to facts and reason. You demonstrated this by linking a paper and completely misunderstanding it to the point that you thought gametes are a spectrum, when it flatly contradicts you:

    (A) A strict binary, for which all individuals are unambiguously grouped into one of two categories. Whereas some traits, such as gamete size, operate this way, […]

    Or here’s yet another person with plenty of credentials telling you directly you’re wrong:

    https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/33/2/in-humans-sex-is-binary-and-immutable

    This article says nothing novel. It discusses a fact as well-established as the billions of years of evolution that shaped our species. We live in a world, however, that increasingly ignores such truths, and in which the combination of awareness and courage to set the record straight appears rare.

    This isn’t even a debate. You’re just wrong. Would you like more citations to that effect?