Transgender Prejudice And The Belief In A Biological Basis For Gender

NPR ^ | 6/26/17 | Tania Lombrozo

[DallasBiff]

As June comes to an end, so do many events associated with Pride Month, a month-long celebration of sexual diversity and gender variance — often geared towards increasing the visibility of the LGBTQIA community, as well as combatting stigma and advocating for equal rights.

But the battle to eliminate stigma and achieve these rights will certainly continue, as recent debates about which bathrooms transgender men and women should use illustrate all too well.

For years here at 13.7, Barbara J. King has been writing about what she calls the spectrum of gender expression, and "the fact that gender identity isn't only — or even mostly — about biology and that it's most certainly not reducible to the sex one is assigned at birth." That's an especially important lesson in light of new research that identifies one of the sources of prejudice against transgender individuals: the (mostly mistaken) belief that men's and women's stereotypical characteristics do, in fact, come down to some immutable feature of one's biology.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: biology; liberal; npr; trans; transgender

[DallasBiff]

I know an article from 8 years ago, but it is funny when looking at this article now, a pop-up ad bemoans the fact of NPR being defunded of taxpayer money, and they are begging for donations.

Also, yeahhhh, NPR was never liberal lefty biased, according to their management.

[Leaning Right]

Good old NPR, giving us yet another example of why they deserve zero taxpayer money.

My advice to NPR: Hire a weirdo, and make up the deficit with an ad campaign. That failed with Bud Light. But it just might work with your audience.

[Lurker]

These people are certifiably insane.

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[TwelveOfTwenty]

Good riddance, NPR.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

[RWGinger]

Thank you for finding and posting
This is the exact reason NPR needed to be defended.
They can publish whatever they want but taxpayers will should not have been funding it.

[bert]

There is no biological condition as trans gender. Trans gender is purely a mental inability to determine and accept the reality of gender

Trans genderism is BLM like politicalization to create an artificial unity where none actually exists

[drwoof]

This has all become a bit tiresome, hasn’t it?

[Savage Beast]

"it's most certainly not reducible to the sex one is assigned at birth"

Right. It most certainly is reducible to the sex one is assigned at conception when the Y chromosome determines male and its absence female.

It's really a simple matter of biology.

[metmom]

Very true.

Does he still have a job?

[Wuli]

Notice how mere academic theory (gender is fluid, not biological) is communicated as “science”, and not the mere belief that it is, while biological fact is called “belief”.

[albie]

These guys don’t give up. They keep doling out this drivel even as they lose funding because of doling out drivel

[GrumpyOldGuy]

“ about which bathrooms MENTALLY ILL men and women should use…”

[Blueflag]

Um ... Why does your post show the photo of a ‘woman’ associated with a quote attributed to a ‘man’ by name?

I identify as confused. ;-)

[alloysteel]

Transgender is not a real thing. It is an example of very hard cosplay, really just transvestites taking on the mannerisms and dress of the opposite sex. Even body mutilations and hormone treatments do not alter the basic identity of the XX or the XY chromosomes. All that does is assure the individual is left a neuter, unable to ever participate in reproduction. for the furtherance of the human race.

[ChessExpert]

I remember a picture and a story of a Black Vulcan. He’d undergone many surgeries to achieve his chosen identity.

[Savage Beast]

This article alone explains why NPR was defunded.

The people at PBS have been in a tizzy for weeks. One wonders if they have any idea why they were defunded.

[bk1000]

“Why does your post show the photo of a ‘woman’ associated with a quote attributed to a ‘man’ by name?”

Pretty sure that isn’t a woman.

[Savage Beast]

Many have complied.

Millions have entered into the delusion, and not merely the transgender delusion, but they have blithely entered the entire array of delusions that comprise the mass insanity of the Decadence of Western Civilization known, among other examples of newspeak, as wokeism or liberalism or progressivism.

The Democrat Party has exploited this mass psychosis and actively encouraged it.

[quilterdebbie]

Right! I looked him up. Here’s the prof:

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