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Heated debates have erupted across the West, triggered by the sudden rise of an ideology that seeks to remove the significance of biological sex in society and replace it with the vague and scientifically vacuous concept of “gender identity.” This shift is often justified by highlighting the existence of so-called “intersex” conditions, more accurately termed disorders/differences of sexual development (DSDs). Proponents argue that because approximately one in every 5,500 individuals (0.018 percent) is born with sexual anatomy that may appear sexually ambiguous or opposite to their sex at birth, this means that biological sex is a “spectrum” and that male...

NHGRI awards $163 million Five research centers will do large-scale genome sequencing | By Maria W Anderson    The National Human Genomic Research Institute (NHGRI) recently awarded grants totaling $163 million in fiscal year 2004 to five US research centers for large-scale genome sequencing projects. Over the next 3 years, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, The Institute for Genome Research (TIGR), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's new Broad Institute, and Agencourt Biosciences will sequence the genomes of several target organisms totaling 54 billion base pairs.Jane Peterson, head of the extramural research division and...