Posted on 04/24/2021 8:04:40 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A Harvard-educated Texas Democratic lawmaker drew double-takes for declaring at a hearing that there are six sexes, prompting a rebuke from skeptics who said his count was off by four.
Texas state Rep. James Talarico made his pronouncement prior to public testimony Tuesday before the Public Education Committee on House Bill 4042, a measure to bar transgender athletes from girls’ K-12 scholastic sports.
Mr. Talarico, a former English teacher, first quizzed Republican state Rep. Cole Hefner, the bill’s sponsor, on how many sexes there are. Mr. Hefner said there were two.
“The bill seems to think there are two,” said Mr. Talarico, who holds an M.A. in education policy from Harvard. “The one thing I want us to all be aware of recognize is that modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six, which honestly, Rep. Hefner, surprised me, too.”
He explained that there are “six really common biological sexes” based on X and Y chromosomes: Not just XX (female) and XY (male), but also single X, XXY, XYY and XXXY.
“The point is that biologically speaking, scientifically speaking, sex is a spectrum, and oftentimes can be very ambiguous,” Mr. Talarico said.
Not having it was Beth Stelzer, president of Save Women’s Sports, who testified in favor of the bill.
She cited scientific studies “proving that the male advantage is immutable [in athletics], and there are in fact two sexes. They are dimorphic: XX, XY.”
“The other, quote, sexes mentioned are disorders of sexual development that are variants of XX or XY chromosomes,” Ms. Stelzer said at the hearing. “They are still disorders of male or female.”
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X,XXY, etc still express themselves within the bimodal distribution of sex.
He is wrong. disorders of sexual chromosomes are rare but any y chromosome confers male sex. Those without any chromosome are female regardless of how many d chromosomes they have.
“’Modern science’ says there are six sexes, Democratic Texas state legislator insists”
Bible says there are TWO (2) sexes. End of argument.
those without a y chromosome are female regardless of how many x chromosomes they have. I hate autocorrect
I asked my wonderful Mexican lady if I could have sex with the other six sexes as it just does not count as they are not female. She said, NO No NO. I suspected harsh consequence if I did such.
I love that lady! :)
“but also single X, XXY, XYY and XXXY”
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A single X would be an unfertilized egg - a hsploid.
The presence of a Y makes a male.
This woke guy is an idiot.
Harvard-educated...... Nough said.
“six really common biological sexes” based on X and Y chromosomes: Not just XX (female) and XY (male), but also single X, XXY, XYY and XXXY.”
The others do occur, but only vanishingly rarely.
Six?! I thought it was 53.
Mr. Talarico left out Trisomy X (XXX).
Saying that these rare variations are different sexes is like claiming that is normal for cats to have six toes on each paw because of the polydactyl cats residing at Earnest Hemingway’s house.
Who goes to Harvard to become a public school English teacher?
I’m not knocking public school teachers or English teachers but ... seriously.
Heretical dead soul demon rat, The Word of The Creator says male and femal made He Them. There are tywo created sexes. Citing abberations to the two is not establishing there are more than two. Of course, we cannot expect a Harvard demon rt to agree with God, they don’t believe God can run the UNiverse without their edifying Him. If they believe God is, even.
The leftists really believe there are 666 genders....
I wonder if Mr. Talarico would like to undergo a DNA test.
Who knows? We might discover that ‘modern science’ pronounces him female...and I suspect that he/she would be happy with that.
While I agree there 2 sexes, I don’t remember anywhere in The Bible that actually explains how many sex is there are. I think It was assumed This was obvious. Of course there’s Adam-and-Eve in the Garden of Eden, But it doesn’t specifically eliminate the possibility of more. It’s just the throughout most of history everybodySees that it’s obvious the 3rd two.
Sex of one, half a dozen of the other...
Single X, or XO, results in Turner’s syndrome. Female genitalia with webbed neck and infertility due to “stream ovaries.”
Six sexes, let’s see: Male, Female, ah... Sheepul, er... Boybot, ah... Turdpuller..., and of course... Goik?
Could it be that they were thinking of “Six Senses”, maybe?
Next question?
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