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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27 So God created mankind in his own image,in the image of God he created them;male and female he created them.
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There are liars and stupid liars.
God created only 2 genders. DemoKKKrats created the other 837 genders. 😱
I believe psychiatrists say that those who claim to be something different from what their biology says are suffering from mental disorders. If that is correct then that is what science says.
That should make gender reveal parties more difficult.
Stop right there. Harvard no longer educates, it indoctrinates. That makes him a babbling fool. Don't debate him, laugh at him.
Streak ovaries
He is also the youngest member of the state legislature, unsurprisingly.
Obviously Rep. Talarico was a social promotion recipient at Harvard.
Single X humans actually do exist. It’s a condition called Turners Syndrome. It’s rare, and those with it are female, but usually non-fertile.
A Harvard-educated Texas Democratic lawmaker.
Well that’s right up there with being a news anchor person.
I apologize for the dreariness of the following. I copied it from a post on some forum a few years ago, and its sneering superiority set my teeth on edge. I'd like to hear your response, if you'd be so kind.
Anyway, here it is:
I just commented this on a transphobic post that was all like, "In a sexual species, females have two X chromosomes and males have an X and a Y, I'm not a bigot it's just science." I'm a science teacher so I responded with this.
First of all, in a sexual species, you can have females be XX and males be X (insects), you can have females be ZW and males be ZZ (birds), you can have females be females because they developed in a warm environment and males be males because they developed in a cool environment (reptiles), you can have females be females because they lost a penis sword fighting contest (some flatworms), you can have males be males because they were born female, but changed sexes because the only male in their group died (parrotfish and clownfish), you can have males look and act like females because they are trying to get close enough to actual females to mate with them (cuttlefish, bluegills, others), or you can be one of thousands of sexes (slime mold, some mushrooms.) Oh, did you mean humans? Oh ok then.
You can be male because you were born female, but you have 5-alphareductase deficiency and so you grew a penis at age 12. You can be female because you have an X and a Y chromosome but you are insensitive to androgens, and so you have a female body. You can be female because you have an X and a Y chromosome but your Y is missing the SRY gene, and so you have a female body. You can be male because you have two X chromosomes, but one of your X's HAS an SRY gene, and so you have a male body. You can be male because you have two X chromosomes- but also a Y. You can be female because you have only one X chromosome at all. And you can be male because you have two X chromosomes, but your heart and brain are male. And vice - effing - versa. Don't use science to justify your bigotry. The world is way too weird for that shit.
Thanks in advance!
“Don’t use science to justify your bigotry.”
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Your post is a head-scratcher to me.
Science is bigotry?
Math is racist.
Facts are lies.
That’s why I copied it. It has been a head-scratcher to me for years and I thought the brains here at FR could help me figure it out.
Ya mean there’s FOUR kinds’a queers?
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