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Scientific American Claims It Is "Misinformation" That There Are Just Two Sexes

Scientific American has published a piece claiming that “misinformation,” such as the notion that there are only two sexes, is “being used against transgender people” and in order to target “gender-affirming medical care.”

The article states that there are three types of “misinformation,” and they are “oversimplifying scientific knowledge, fabricating and misinterpreting research, and promoting false equivalences.”

The piece asserts that “Many of the arguments against trans rights center on the idea that transness itself is not legitimate - that there are just two sexes, period.”

There are only two sexes though.

It then turns to ‘scientist’ Simón(e) Sun, a self described trans(sexual) ándrógýne \ (neuro)biologist, pronouns in bio person and notes “You describe this idea as ‘sex essentialism.’ Can you explain that term, and talk about how it shapes the debate.”

They/she then states “Essentialism is the idea that you can take any phenomenon that is complex and distill it down to a particular set of traits. In the case of sex essentialism, the idea is that you can sufficiently describe sex by a few particular characteristics. In this debate, it used to be chromosomes, now it’s gametes (egg and sperm cells).”

Yeah, that is biology 101 and no matter how many times they/she says it’s changed and that anyone who doesn’t agree is a ‘transphobe’, it hasn’t.

All of this comes in the wake of a major long term study in the UK that concluded that treatment gender-confused children have been offered was built entirely on “shaky foundations” and that there is “no good evidence to support the global clinical practice of prescribing hormones to under-18s to pause puberty or transition to the opposite sex.”

The author of the review, retired consultant paediatrician Dr Cass, formerly the president of the Royal College of Paediatrics, called the evidence for life altering drugs “remarkably weak” and warned that transgender activists are the ones “deliberately spread(ing) misinformation.”

Since the review was published, Cass has been subject to abuse and cannot use public transport over fears for her safety.

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The I stands for intersex, a biological variance that means a person's sex doesn't fit neatly into the boxes of "male" or "female"—based on their chromosomes, genital presentation, reproductive tissue, or some combination of the three.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh, I agree.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh, I agree.

I just wanted to caveat that a small number of people are genetically ambiguous or physically intersex

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The I stands for intersex, a biological variance that means a person's sex doesn't fit neatly into the boxes of "male" or "female"—based on their chromosomes, genital presentation, reproductive tissue, or some combination of the three.

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These are true physical anomalies.

There are appx 0.25% of the population with sex chromosome abnormality (missing or extra) and approximately 0.05% who are physically ambiguous at birth (eg external genetalia, which is how babies are assigned at birth, doesn't match internal gonads or chromosomes)

So for me, there's always an asterix on the "two sexes" statement, with a little chip out for people being born the way they are.

But applying "nonbinary" to 99.75% of the population doesn't make sense. And when you can go from a nearly invisible minority claiming nonbinary status to a SIGNIFICANT minority of young people (25%) making the same claim 15 years later ... well, this clearly isn't sexual biology. It's either some sort of developmental pathology -possibly related to autism - or it's a social pathology, where it's seen as "cool" to claim nonbinary status and then be rewarded with lots and lots of unearned attention for it.


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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The answer is that you're fucking nuts, creep.

You people are disgusting. I'll bet Ted isn't going to touch this thread with a 10 foot pole because he knows you're nuts too.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Seems like DEMS are obsessed with trans kids.

Me? If there are trans kids it's very, very rare.
Most kids aren't thinking about sex unless they've been sexually abused.
And I think asking a kid what sex they want to be is like asking a kid what they want to be when they grow up.
How the hell do THEY know?
You only discover yourself thru experience over time. It's not something you decide when you're six, or twelve. That's just stupid.

But... Insult, lies, libel.

That's SECOND!
He wanted to be a sociopath when he grew up!

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Seems like DEMS are obsessed with trans kids.

Me? If there are trans kids it's very, very rare.
Most kids aren't thinking about sex unless they've been sexually abused.
And I think asking a kid what sex they want to be is like asking a kid what they want to be when they grow up.
How the hell do THEY know?
You only discover yourself thru experience over time. It's not something you decide when you're six, or twelve. That's just stupid.

But... Insult, lies, libel.

That's SECOND!
He wanted to be a sociopath when he grew up!

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I don't think anybody wants to be a sociopath when they grow up.

At this point I have to assume his Republican voting uncle touched him where he shouldn't be touched when he was a kid.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Glad to know life's OK for you. I get a bit worried when you're not progressing on your projects.

On a Prednisone high for the past 2 weeks. Once I start weaning down I'll be depressed, tired, anxious and glued to the couch unless I start taking tranquilizers.

Made the mistake of reading up my dx. Maybe what I accessed was an old version of the Merck Manual, but the 5-year survival rate they quoted (80%) is even worse than the cancer survival rate (90%).
But based on other people's symptoms, all of the minor stuff has ALREADY happened to me, and I live with it. So AFAIK there are only a few important things to pay attention to, kidney failure and infection being top of the list.

So if I mind the important stuff, I'll take my treatments, and just keep on keeping on

And since I haven't formally started the heavy duty infusions yet I'm taking the oppty to do as much yardwork as possible.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Seems like DEMS are obsessed with trans kids.

Me? If there are trans kids it's very, very rare.
Most kids aren't thinking about sex unless they've been sexually abused.
And I think asking a kid what sex they want to be is like asking a kid what they want to be when they grow up.
How the hell do THEY know?
You only discover yourself thru experience over time. It's not something you decide when you're six, or twelve. That's just stupid.

But... insult, lies, libel.

That's SECOND!
He wanted to be a sociopath when he grew up!

SECOND: Signym, I know from where your rotten behavior

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Springs forth. You are much the same as every Trumptard: sick, fearful, drugged and despairing about your future.

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I'm sick, but not despairing. I'm full of plans.

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The cure for Trumptards' LGBTQ concerns (make that all their concerns) is to be repeatedly kicked in the ass until their condition improves. Trump needs it. So do his Trumptards.

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The only problem with that theory is there isn't a single man among you soy-filled faggots to get that job done.

It's the same reason that you won't dare start a second Civil War... yanno... since you wouldn't get to fight that one from behind your computer screen.

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P.S. Signym, I've read more than enough from you to know you have nothing that looks like a "plan" or even a meaningful life. You are just angry poor white trash about to fall dead. Specifically the two words "Fuck Ukraine" give away the rottenness inside of Signym and 6ix.

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You're a real piece of shit. It's no wonder your parents hate you.



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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yeah, SECOND is a piece of shit.

But he posts what he posts to either derail the topic (especially if he just got his ass handed to him) or to discredit the other poster.

What he doesn't seem to realize is that he's discrediting himself. BIGLY!


Everything he's called me (Russian troll, Trumptard, angry, poor, trash, stupid, ignorant, meaningless... probably "racist", "sexist", "pro-authoritaian", and "Nazi" somewhere along the way too) is wrong. The ONLY thing he's gotten right is "white". It doesn't bother me. By now its kinda funny.

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The most common scrambles are Turner Syndrome and Klinefelter's Syndrome. Of those, mst are infertile but some aren't.

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The most common scrambles are Turner Syndrome and Klinefelter's Syndrome. Of those, mst are infertile but some aren't.

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If they are incapable of reproducing, that seems a poor definition of a new sex. Most offspring require a capable male along with a capable female.


Those that do reproduce, does the anomaly produce in the offspring?

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If you're using fertility to define a sex, that automatically excludes the prepubescent , the elderly, and about 10% of reproductive -age individuals who are chromosomally normal but infertile for other reasons. Which excludes 50-70% of individuals.

I'm not saying there is "a" "new" sex. You're misinterpreting my meaning. I think it's appropriate to define males as chromosomally XY, females as chromosomally XX, AND whose internal and external gonads match each other and their karyotypes.

nd that works .... 99% of the time.

BUT there are instances where this doesn't work.

If we INSIST on jamming people into one category or the other, FWIW the presence of a Y chromosome confers (some) male characteristics, even if accompanied by extra X chromosomes or fragments. The absence of Y chromosome confers female characteristics even with supernumary X chromosomes or fragments. AFA people who are developmentally scrambled*, they are usually raised as whatever it is that they look like externally, no matter what their genes or internal gonads are, and most choose to continue to live that way.
*i.e. looks female at birth but really has undescended testicles and a very small penis.

But I would certainly make a MEDICAL decision for sex reassignment for those intersex individuals who feel misclassified at birth, bc there are PHYSICAL reasons for that.
Not for "psychological" reasons.

For people who feel constrained by biology into a sex role ... well, that's their problem, not ours.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
It would be interesting to see what the prevalence of sex ... or even other ... genetic defects occur in mammals and birds. I don't think Ive ever seen a study.

But there's one gene that's often selected AGAINST, and that's the male gene, the Y chromosome.

Among mammals and birds, the rate limiting step for reproduction is with the female. Males can reproduce in a few seconds. Female mammals have to go thru gestation and (for mammals) nursing. So there's a high species survival value on having as many females survive as possible.

Males? Maybe not so much. One thing to look at is the female/ male ratio of various species. It tells us a lot about that species' reproductive strategy.

The one thing that can save males from superfluousness is if they significantly and regularly contribute to the survival of the young. That happens among many birds, where female AND male gather food for the young. It also happens among humans, because human babies, like baby birds, have prodigious demands that can only be satisfied by multiple adults.

What happens to "excess" males in many other species is that they're gotten rid of thru competiton, where most mature males are driven out of the herd/ pride/ crowd, away from prime feeding grounds and protection, where they live a short existence either by themselves or in fractious bachelor groups.

Anyway, if we'regojngvto look at sex chromosomes and which one(s) are favored by evolution, we should look at males and females as well.

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