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 persons 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 administrations latest plan to define gender goes beyond the limits of scientific knowledge.
The idea that a persons sex is determined by their anatomy at birth is not true, and weve known that its 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 persons 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 dont 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I’m an expert too..is spotting bullsh8t “experts”..
+1
The NYT has become medically meaningless.
Q: Do you go to a Dr for childbirth and pick a Dr who can’t tell your gender?
A: No
Q: Do you get your news from a source who makes things up depending on how they feel at the moment?
A: Same No.
Just love me possession of an MD or PhD doesn’t determine intelligence.
I swear. As soon as it says “and experts say”.... pure garbage... It’s like the robocalls that say “don’t hang up!”
Exactly.
People can change their appearance but their sex genetic markers remain unaltered.
The notion gender identity is fluid is just stupid but nothing about liberalism is born out there of rational acquaintance with the world.
Facts are stubborn things.
I love this one “gender goes beyond the limits of scientific knowledge”
This “expert” makes a living off of trannys. Small wonder he would support the “science”.
This is gonna be a great thread.
NYT’s expert...sells dirty water dogs
in central park between 10AM-4PM
Gender is based on the ability to parallel park.
Gee.
I woulda flunked Bio 101 when I took it if I said that.
Where’d this guy buy his MD? K-Mart?
Good God! This is an expert from our higher education via K-12????
Friggin moron comes to mind as an accurate description!
They’re coming to take him away, ha ha, hee hee, ho ho . . .
Basically transgender activists, then. Got it.
Well do YOU hold a prestigious position at The Jackian Center for Beanstalk Studies?
Yeah, didnt think so.
Or when they enjoy white-male privilege [which is, near as I can tell, having to engage in remunerative work from the time you are 16 or so].
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