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Harvard lecturer blasted by colleague for defending existence of biological sex
New York Post ^ | July 31, 2021 | Jon Levine

Posted on 07/31/2021 12:54:27 PM PDT by karpov

Harvard lecturer Carole Hooven took heat from her own colleague after an appearance on Fox News this week in which she asserted that biological sex is real and defended the continued use of terms like ‘pregnant women’ and “male and female.”

“The ideology seems to be that biology really isn’t as important as how somebody feels about themselves, or feels their sex to be,” Hooven told “Fox & Friends” Wednesday. “The facts are that there are in fact two sexes — there are male and female — and those sexes are designated by the kind of gametes we produce.”

Hooven, the author of a book about testosterone, teaches Human Evolutionary Biology at the school and appeared in a segment dedicated to discussing how medical schools had gone woke.

The whole thing didn’t sit well with Laura Simone Lewis, the Director of the Diversity and Inclusion Task Force at Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology.

Lewis, who identifies on Twitter as a “Blewish feminist mermaid,” called Hooven’s defense of science “dangerous.”

“I am appalled and frustrated by the transphobic and harmful remarks made by a member of my dept in this interview with Fox and Friends,” she wrote.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: harvard; transgender; xyxx
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To: karpov
Director of the Diversity and Inclusion Task Force at Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology.

She is only the Director of the Diversity and Inclusion Task Force for the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology. Do all departments have Diversity and Inclusion Task Forces? How many people in each task force?

Can we be sure that Harvard, and all ass sucking liberal institutions, are doing enough to ensure that any transgendered, misgendered, cisgendered or disgendered individuals are the focus of ALL that we do?

21 posted on 07/31/2021 1:32:24 PM PDT by mcenedo (lying liberal media, our most dangerous and powerful enemy)
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To: joma89

Yep. That reminds me of what my brother told me last month, we were wondering why a moron like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is pretty much running the Democratic party now and he said “In the land of the single digit IQs the woman who scored a 10 rules” LOL LOL LOL


22 posted on 07/31/2021 1:34:49 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: BenLurkin

Hi Laura. I don’t respect pretend fantasies about gender and I already use the correct pronouns, he, she and they.

Kindly eff off.


23 posted on 07/31/2021 1:37:54 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods ( comment might be sarcasm, or not. It depends. Often I'm not sure either.)
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To: karpov

blow their minds

tell them trangenderism is proving male supremacy

trans woman wins beauty contest
trans woman wins sports event

men are even better at being women


24 posted on 07/31/2021 1:44:37 PM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: karpov

The article is so ridiculous that if you had not posted a link, I would have thought the article was from the “Babylon Bee.”


25 posted on 07/31/2021 1:58:23 PM PDT by CedarDave (Wearing a mask to keep you safe from the virus is like putting up chicken wire to keep out mosquitos)
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To: BenLurkin

Truth and reality are soooo yesterday, and dangerous relics of white oppression.


26 posted on 07/31/2021 2:01:20 PM PDT by FiddlePig (The greatest threat to our sacred liberty is to not value it!””)
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To: karpov

Harvard lecturer Carole Hooven took heat from her own colleague after an appearance on Fox News this week in which she asserted that biological sex is real


I wonder which “scientists” will just come flat-out and say biological sex is not real.


27 posted on 07/31/2021 2:07:21 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: karpov

“Blewish feminist mermaid,”

What the fresh hell is this mean?


28 posted on 07/31/2021 2:09:08 PM PDT by ro_dreaming ("XX = female; XY = male. Who's the science deniers now?" - Me)
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To: Old Yeller

Just as my tagline says...


29 posted on 07/31/2021 2:09:21 PM PDT by ro_dreaming ("XX = female; XY = male. Who's the science deniers now?" - Me)
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I would think a developing baby awash in testosterone would permanently F it up somehow


30 posted on 07/31/2021 2:21:38 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: Hot Tabasco

I see what you did there….


31 posted on 07/31/2021 2:36:16 PM PDT by Shady (Prince Andrew must be dethroned...And who killed Ashli Babbitt? )
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To: joshua c
men are even better at being women

From the look on its face this baby would dispute that....


32 posted on 07/31/2021 2:36:46 PM PDT by Bobalu (The higher the monkey climbs, the more you see his ass.)
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To: BenLurkin

Is it too hard to understand that babies are born with vaginas or penises? I think that means there are only two sexes but maybe You could help me get a million dollar or two grant to study that to see if I’m wrong.


33 posted on 07/31/2021 2:38:46 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti)
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To: ro_dreaming

I had to hunt around to decipher the meaning. “Blewish” is black and Jewish. I don’t know if this means black and religiously Jewish like Sammy Davis Jr, or black and ethnically Jewish like Maya Rudolph. Feminist can have any number of meanings depending on which decade she points to. And the strangest and hardest to find, mermaid, means a basically straight woman who nonetheless is attracted to women’s breasts but has no interest in what women have below the waist.


34 posted on 07/31/2021 2:49:11 PM PDT by Burkean (. )
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To: karpov

These people have “turned to fables” as the Bible says is characteristic of the end times.


35 posted on 07/31/2021 2:55:02 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: karpov

Monty Python’s LIVE OF BRIAN pointed this out forty years ago when Stan wanted to be called Loretta and have babies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgp9MPLEAqA

http://montypython.50webs.com/scripts/Life_of_Brian/8.htm


36 posted on 07/31/2021 2:57:54 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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To: Burkean

That’s a lot of mental jujitsu to decipher three words.


37 posted on 07/31/2021 3:12:59 PM PDT by Mr Fuji
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To: karpov

We need to invent hermaphrodite surgery so the transgendered can go screw themselves.


38 posted on 07/31/2021 3:45:08 PM PDT by Overtaxed (Ephesians 6:12)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

“How about F you? Does that work?”

“F” is technically a verb...

“AH” is a noun “Hey AH” might meet the personnel pronoun criteria though...


39 posted on 07/31/2021 4:09:23 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Good one there, Hot Tabasco!

She’s just a graduate student, not a Harvard official.


40 posted on 07/31/2021 4:45:24 PM PDT by poconopundit (Hard oak fist in an Irish velvet glove: Kayleigh the Shillelagh we salute your work!)
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