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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A single X is a female with Turner syndrome.
Here are the others. The leading number is the total number of chromosomes instead of the typical 46.
Trisomies:
47,XXY (Klinefelter syndrome)
47,XXX (Trisomy X)
Tetrasomies:
48,XXYY
48,XXXY
48,XXXX
Pentasomies:
49,XXXXY
49,XXXXX
“Attack helicopter”
LOLOL
This isn’t new, Kinsey Continuum
Ding ding. Chromosomal abnormalities don’t create another sex; that’s why they’re called abnormalities. On top of that, they’re exceedingly rare.
So science changes over time...
Utter baloney.
Absolutely correct. Not even debatable. Yet here the Left is debating it.
How come the animals have only two sexes?
Just like they debate the settled science of sexual dimorphism.
I'm pretty sure that, without any chromosomes, you'd be DEAD (or, more properly, never have been alive).
Regards,
Another “Harvard” graduate (MA = Master Asshole degree). And he was an English teacher too. The guy wants to destroy everyone around him.
I say let the legislature give him an “X” grade re his stupidity and put him in the corner for the rest of the year.
Let’s see. There is revenge sex, makeup sex...
Postmodern science liberates us from the outmoded business of words having meanings. /sarc
But even if they let the determination of the chromosomes define one’s,sex, it is still not a matter for each person to declare,
however he wills.
Creating another mentally ill narrative, “lets see if we can make them believe this”!
The d chromosome. Sounds like a treatable disease. Maybe moderna and pfizer could hel by injecting single stranded mrna that need additional nucleotides to form complex protein structures. Wink wink.
None of those are ‘different’ sexes, they are genetic anomalies. But just saying ‘Harvard’ sways many people to the wrong conclusion.
Example: XO is called Turner’s Syndrome. The young girl is beautiful, but sterile and has other differences. Genetic anomalies do not make a ‘new sex’ of the person.
True- want proof of this to show the dimwits who believe this nonsense? Tell them to get a rooster and make it lay eggs or take a bull and try to milk it.
“It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.”
Ronald Reagan
Liberals think black Americans are too dumb to get an ID to vote,
Now they think Jews are too dumb to eat soup without spilling it!
The level of insanity this world has succumbed to!
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1385583168162451457/pu/vid/352x640/aeITEh9SXNhv_5G8.mp4
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