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Biological sex is being redefined to subvert society
Washington Examiner ^ | January 3, 2022 | Debra Soh

Posted on 01/03/2022 8:13:52 AM PST by karpov

On Thursday, Science, one of the top scientific publications in the world, ran a letter titled, “Transgender rights rely on inclusive language,” suggesting that biological sex is “context-dependent” and not binary.

If you had to go back and re-read that last sentence, let me assure you, you did indeed read it correctly. The letter — authored by two neuroscientists and a graduate student in biology — argues for “inclusive language around sex diversity,” and that, in the five years since the National Institutes of Health announced that research proposals should include sex as a biological variable, society has become hostile to transgender people.

The NIH’s directive was originally instated to address the fact that biomedical studies including only male participants lacked application to women. Pre-Clown World, this would be uncontroversial. But behold the pathway of thinking social justice ideology has plowed while I mourn my former field of neuroscience.

Anyone who follows my writing will know by now that sex is determined by gametes: eggs and sperm. As a result, there are only two sexes, and biological sex is not a spectrum. Intersex people, who possess a combination of female and male anatomy (and who are frequently tokenized by activists as a justification for outlandish claims), typically prefer to live as male or female, within a binary conception of sex.

It is certainly important to be sensitive regarding one’s choice of language, as reference to biological sex has been used to discriminate against transgender, intersex, and gender-nonconforming people. But this sensitivity doesn’t require separating sex from its associated traits (for example, as detailed in the letter, remaining agnostic as to whether development of testicles is indicative of someone being male), or detaching sex from gender (how someone identifies), considering that the two differ for fewer than 1% of us.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: biologydeniers; biologyphobes; biologyphobia; sex; transgender
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"Dr. Debra Soh is a sex neuroscientist, the host of The Dr. Debra Soh Podcast, and the author of The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths About Sex and Identity in Our Society."
1 posted on 01/03/2022 8:13:52 AM PST by karpov
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To: karpov

Read the communist manifesto. Read Saul Alinsky’s rules for radicals.

It’s all there but the Lenin’s useful idiots keep preaching the BS woke mantras


2 posted on 01/03/2022 8:16:24 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: karpov

“It” is inclusive


3 posted on 01/03/2022 8:18:07 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: karpov
When the scientific process has been compromised, we are deeply in trouble.

Global Warming
COVID
Transgenders

We are in trouble. Science seems utterly incapable of policing itself and has become simply Politics. We are in a sort of Dark Age.

4 posted on 01/03/2022 8:19:34 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Mass hypnosis of society. So many people are blind to the Truth which is in front of them.)
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To: karpov

Basic biology, two sexes, male and female.

Languages have genders.


5 posted on 01/03/2022 8:20:10 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: karpov

Why can a toad recognize if it is male or female but we cannot? Peak clown world.


6 posted on 01/03/2022 8:21:35 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: karpov

The good news: stupid is as quickly and easily erased as it is induced.


7 posted on 01/03/2022 8:21:37 AM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: karpov

8 posted on 01/03/2022 8:21:41 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: karpov; imabadboy99
Just remember - the same people lecturing us to “trust the science”, are the same ones that tell us there’s more than 2 genders.

#20 posted on 1/2/2022, 8:39:37 PM by imabadboy99

9 posted on 01/03/2022 8:25:16 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Nietzsche: “Everything the State says is a lie, and everything the State has. It was stolen!”)
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To: karpov

Have these biological “scientist” not read:
“Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning, MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE,” Matthew 19:4. KJV ?


10 posted on 01/03/2022 8:27:02 AM PST by sasportas ( )
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Just remember - the same people lecturing us to “trust the science”, are the same ones that tell us there’s more than 2 genders.

#20 posted on 1/2/2022, 8:39:37 PM by imabadboy99

12 posted on 01/03/2022 8:27:27 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Nietzsche: “Everything the State says is a lie, and everything the State has. It was stolen!”)
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To: karpov

It’s easy.

XX - female

XY = male


13 posted on 01/03/2022 8:31:44 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: karpov

2 sexes, male & female.

The rest are lies.


14 posted on 01/03/2022 8:31:45 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: karpov

#BiologyDeniers
#BiologyPhobes
#BiologyPhobia


15 posted on 01/03/2022 8:33:07 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Languages have genders.

Yes. I admit I would have a difficult time with anyone who said people have 57 different genders and you can sort of be "whatever". I don't like that. But, it does get into a "philosophical" realm where the essence of things might be debateable. Some fuzziness seems slightly built-in for those discussions.

But "biological sex"? Oh, That's different. That's clear cut. Two sexes, male and female. XX and XY. Nothing more to be said. There is no fuzziness.

But to see actual "scientists" specifically discussing "biological sex" and claiming that there are many genders ... just leaves me shaking my damn head.

16 posted on 01/03/2022 8:40:13 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Mass hypnosis of society. So many people are blind to the Truth which is in front of them.)
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To: metmom

Bingo... Thus it has always been, and thus it always will be, no matter how some would lie and obfuscate.


17 posted on 01/03/2022 9:04:29 AM PST by AFPhys ((Liberalism is what Smart looks like to Stupid people - ® - Mia of KC. Rush - 1:50-8/21/15))
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To: karpov

“Transgender rights...”

It always comes down to that. There is only one right on earth and that is the one granted by God to be made alive. Everything after that is a privilege. Privileges can be taken away and are. There is no such thing as transgender rights.

wy69


18 posted on 01/03/2022 9:24:48 AM PST by whitney69
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To: karpov

“Science, one of the top scientific publications in the world”

Shut up and just trust “the science”.


19 posted on 01/03/2022 9:33:47 AM PST by all the best
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To: karpov

I’m a little green alien. Prove my gender.


20 posted on 01/03/2022 9:53:27 AM PST by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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