Posted on 10/23/2018 1:28:56 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Anatomy Does Not Determine Gender, Experts Say
By Denise Grady
Oct. 22, 2018
Defining gender as a condition determined strictly by a person’s genitals is based on a notion that doctors and scientists abandoned long ago as oversimplified and often medically meaningless.
Researchers who have studied gender issues and provided health care to people who do not fit the typical M/F pigeonholes said that the Trump administration’s latest plan to define gender goes beyond the limits of scientific knowledge.
“The idea that a person’s sex is determined by their anatomy at birth is not true, and we’ve known that it’s not true for decades,” said Dr. Joshua D. Safer, an endocrinologist and executive director of the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery at Mount Sinai Health System in New York. He is also president of the United States Professional Association of Transgender Health.
But exactly what does determine gender identity — a person’s powerful, core knowledge of who they are — is not so clear.
“We know that there is a significant, durable biological underpinning to gender identity,” Dr. Safer said. “What we don’t know are all of the biological factors at play that explain gender identity. As far as we in the mainstream biological-medical community understand it in 2018, it is hard-wired, it is biological, it is not entirely hormonal, and we do not have identified genes, so we cannot specifically say it is genetic.”
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“Anatomy Does Not Determine Gender, Experts Say”
Likewise a degree from a medical school does not determine intelligence or wisdom.
“...some people are born with some of the genitals of both sexes.”
And they can go screw themselves.
So, we now know that a man is a woman is a chair is a frog. Make sense? Of course not. No one chooses or fantasizes their “gender” or “sex”. You are born that way, to quote Lady GaGa.
The very concept of truth and objective reality is at stake here, and I am not going to let these idiots “Queersplain” it all away.
That’s no expert. That’s an ex-spurt!
Anatomy might not but chromosomes sure do. And anatomy seems to follow them closely.
“bajingo”?
Hey, watch that language! :)
Who in their right mind would admit that the department they are the director of is just a bogus government money pit?
These are the same people who insist that anyone who questions the climate change hoax is “Anti-Science”.
Okey-dokey.
On weekends he is a climate scientist.
You mean front hole
“Water no longer wet”—experts say.
“Water no longer wet”—experts say.
Transgender health ... now there’s an oxymoron
Oh but it is true that the gender of a person is determined by their genitals at birth. To say it is not is to say that a rock is a flower. It is phoney to allow these poor people who are affected by feelings that they are of the other sex to keep going on in that light.
Chromosome deniers!
It is from a recent academic hoax.
Experts in nothing.
The official experts run the sex change surgery centers.
Of course they’re vested in promoting this bullshit.
An “expert”should understand the difference in meaning between the words “sex” and “gender”, and recognize that misuse of “gender” is intended to confuse the issue.
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