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Biology prof lectures state rep on 'sex determination stuff'
Campusreform.org ^ | 12/27/2017 | Neetu Chandak

Posted on 12/28/2017 2:35:32 PM PST by Maceman

A biology professor from San Jose State University recently argued in several tweets that “chromosomes don’t determine sex.”

The tweets were written in response to Texas State Representative Briscoe Cain, who had tweeted a picture of the XX and XY chromosomes as reminder of "how many genders there are."

A San Jose State University biology professor recently accused a Texas state legislator of being “bigoted” for tweeting that there are only two genders.

“In case you forgot how many genders there are,” Republican State Representative Briscoe Cain tweeted on December 21, attaching a picture of the XX and XY chromosomes.

"One thing I am not doing is arguing with someone whose basic premise is incorrect and tries to tell me that they know more about my science, in which I am an expert, than I do."

Describing herself as a geneticist, Rachael French replied to the tweet with an extended harangue in which she impugned Cain’s motives and derided his understanding of biology.

(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...


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KEYWORDS: fakescience; female; male; xx; xy
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To: Maceman
A biology professor from San Jose State University recently argued in several tweets that “chromosomes don’t determine sex.”

Ever person I had sex with was XX and I am XY. I am not confused about my male sex nor am I confused about what a female is!

41 posted on 12/28/2017 4:22:14 PM PST by cpdiii (DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
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To: WayneS

Where do you think the grammatical concept of gender came from? It is a natural development based on our perception of the world... there are two biological genders, hence many early societies developed languages that contain gender.

In the biological sense, there are two genders. And that dichotomy extends from the simplest bacteria to the most complex multicellular organisms.

It is not true that chromosomes always determine gender. But in humans and, I think, in vertebrates in general, chromosomes always determine gender. It isn’t always XX female and XY male—in chickens (and maybe all birds), it is the opposite.


42 posted on 12/28/2017 4:23:02 PM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Maceman

French is full of dung. Male and female. Period. Full stop. End of story.


43 posted on 12/28/2017 4:28:33 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Telepathic Intruder
Biologically speaking, there are only two sexes.

Of the sociopsychological construct "gender", there are many.

44 posted on 12/28/2017 4:29:35 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: exDemMom
In a biological sense there are two sexes, male and female. The male sex is masculine, the female sex is feminine. Gender (masculine / feminine ) describes a characteristic associated with sex, but male and female are not genders - unless you ascribe to today’s twisted and perverted world where there are no absolute definitions of anything.
45 posted on 12/28/2017 4:34:38 PM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: Intolerant in NJ

...in which case they work tirelessly to “fix” science, even if it takes several generations. Sort of like the way they have equated sex and gender for so long that most people no longer recognize the difference.


46 posted on 12/28/2017 4:43:29 PM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: lastchance

I thought the same thing....


47 posted on 12/28/2017 4:43:52 PM PST by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go. Dump McConnman, too.)
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To: thesharkboy

Thank you!


48 posted on 12/28/2017 4:47:36 PM PST by thoolou (Seems the Information Age gives the illusion of information, while still being oblivious to the wold)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
It is all a word game. There are two sexes, male and female, with a tiny incidence of genetic anomaly not at issue here. “Gender” is a political term which has no extrinsic meaning. It just means whatever these crackpots decide it means. Not worth arguing about, because the term is not worth using, This “professor” is an unethical hack hiding her degenerate politics behind the figleaf of “science.”
49 posted on 12/28/2017 4:51:29 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Telepathic Intruder
It is all a word game. There are two sexes, male and female, with a tiny incidence of genetic anomaly not at issue here. “Gender” is a political term which has no extrinsic meaning. It just means whatever these crackpots decide it means. Not worth arguing about, because the term is not worth using, This “professor” is an unethical hack hiding her degenerate politics behind the figleaf of “science.”
50 posted on 12/28/2017 4:57:16 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard

Even the “tiny incidence of genetic anomaly” have either male or female sex chromosomes, not both or neither. You have one or the other. “Gender” is being redefined by the political correct in a way that is not supported by any science. They are the ones who are anti-science, not the “climate deniers” on the right. They’re also denying climate change, by the way, by saying it isn’t natural. According to real science, it is.


51 posted on 12/28/2017 5:06:01 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: miss marmelstein

***We are turning into the Soviet Union *** and accepting USSR’s Lysenkoism as the “real” science.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/disastrous-effects-lysenkoism-soviet-agriculture


52 posted on 12/28/2017 5:36:04 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Maceman

Liberals love to claim the Bible and by extension Jesus is in error.

Matthew 19:4-6New King James Version (NKJV)

4 And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,


53 posted on 12/28/2017 5:39:51 PM PST by Raycpa
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To: miniTAX

she must be a crackpot that tries to justify homosexual behavior as some sort of “helper neuter gender” for a gender that can not reproduce.


54 posted on 12/28/2017 5:43:11 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.tand http://www.house.gov)
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To: WayneS

I think that the resistance to use “gender” to mean actual biological gender is a regional thing, not really based on a proper usage.

To me, “sex” refers to the act of procreation and related concepts. To use “sex” to refer to male or female is uncomfortable and awkward. It’s as bad as using that “p” word to refer to a kitty cat—which, in some dialects, is perfectly okay, but not in my dialect.

And the use of gender in language, in those languages that have it—people really do think of some objects as feminine, with feminine qualities, and others as masculine, with masculine qualities.


55 posted on 12/28/2017 6:26:33 PM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: exDemMom

I think you are wrong. When I took biology, the word gender was never used. I heard it a lot in Spanish class, though.


56 posted on 12/28/2017 6:31:32 PM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: Maceman

I do hope this so called professor is not teaching any of your little darlings. What a disgrace to science.


57 posted on 12/28/2017 6:37:52 PM PST by MGunny
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To: Maceman
"One thing I am not doing is arguing with someone whose basic premise is incorrect and tries to tell me that they know more about my science, in which I am an expert, than I do."

This "professor" thinks mighty highly of him/herself.

58 posted on 12/28/2017 6:44:43 PM PST by wastedyears (US out of the UN, UN out of the US.)
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To: lastchance

I was recommended by my 9th grade biology teacher to go to honors’ bio. Seeing complete mind-boggling stupidity such as this makes me glad I chose earth science instead (not that I did well with that).


59 posted on 12/28/2017 6:46:58 PM PST by wastedyears (US out of the UN, UN out of the US.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

>***We are turning into the Soviet Union *** and accepting USSR’s Lysenkoism as the “real” science.

We’re well past Soviet levels of insanity. Under Hillary, we would have approached Soviet levels of repression as well. Thank God for President Trump.


60 posted on 12/28/2017 6:49:06 PM PST by JohnyBoy (The GOP Senate is intentionally trying to lose the majority.)
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