Posted on 11/01/2018 9:56:43 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
More than 1,600 scientists signed a letter denouncing President Trump administration’s plan to narrow the definition of gender to be strictly biological, according to Buzzfeed.
The letter was written in response to a memo reportedly drafted by the Department of Health and Human Services, according to the New York Times.
The memo states that any disputes about a person’s sex would be clarified using genetic testing, which scientists who signed the letter called unscientific and unethical.
“This proposal is fundamentally inconsistent not only with science, but also with ethical practices, human rights, and basic dignity,” the scientists wrote.
Among the signatories are eight Nobel laureates.
The letter emphasizes that both biological sex and gender are on a spectrum and are not clear cut.
“Our best available evidence shows that affirmation of gender identity is paramount to the survival, health, and livelihood of transgender and intersex people,” the letter states.
More than 50 companies signed onto a statement released Wednesday supporting transgender equality.
As scientists, we are compelled to write to you, our elected representatives, about the current administration’s proposal to legally define gender as a binary condition determined at birth, based on genitalia, and with plans to clarify disputes using “genetic testing”. This proposal is fundamentally inconsistent not only with science, but also with ethical practices, human rights, and basic dignity.
The proposal is in no way “grounded in science” as the administration claims. The relationship between sex chromosomes, genitalia, and gender identity is complex, and not fully understood. There are no genetic tests that can unambiguously determine gender, or even sex. Furthermore, even if such tests existed, it would be unconscionable to use the pretext of science to enact policies that overrule the lived experience of people’s own gender identities.
Bottom line: Even if there are genes that determine sex we should still go by how people feel.
These people are supposed to pass as “scientists” nowadays??
There are three genders of jellyfish
LOL. These "scientists" should be stripped of their degrees and credentials. Now genetic testing is "unscientific"!
Does it surprise anyone that these are the same people peddling "global warming" and "climate change"? Ha ha ha ha.
“Science” has become a joke.
We, the General American majority, don’t care if 16 Million ‘scientists’ scribbled their signatures to this letter.
We wish to keep the standard that has worked since the start of Mankind.
There are but two genders, barring the rare phenomenon of Hermaphrodism. We are not willing to keep playing this game of ‘lets pretend I’m a ‘X’, where you can lose your job if you refuse to pretend. It’s an unnecessary drain of time and energy in the social world.
I challenge these scientists to put two mares together in a pasture and time how long it takes them to produce a foal. Idiots.
Those aren’t scientists, well, maybe left-wing Political Scientists.
Scumbag leftists!
IMO, the entire theory of evolution is at least as lame as “climate science”.
Mainstream science has become so politicized, it resembles a cult religion more than anything else.
That cult religion has rightfully been dubbed, Scientism.
Where is the satire tag?
They keep using the word “Scientist” I don’t think it means what they think it means.
1,600 faggots
“Scientist” now means compromised LIB nitwit. Who knew???
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1,600 sexual DV8s
Selective science based on sin is not science
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