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Throughout the article the author repeatedly conflates sex and gender. He even links to "an editorial [in Nature] claiming that classifying an individual’s sex
by wcerfgba 6y ago
Throughout the article the author repeatedly conflates sex and gender. He even links to "an editorial [in Nature] claiming that classifying an individual’s sex using any combination of anatomy and genetics “has no basis in science.”", which is actually titled "US proposal for defining gender has no basis in science".
Sex and gender are not the same this and this lazy fumbling between the two concepts is a classic trans-exclusionary tactic.
- stefantalpalaru 6y ago> Sex and gender are not the same Tell that to those who started calling sex "biological gender": http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2016/gender-lines-science-transgender-identity/ http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2016/gender-lines-science-...
- TheCoelacanth 6y agoYes, it basically turns the entire rant into one giant strawman argument. By substituting sex for gender in his opponents' arguments, he is replacing their arguments with weaker ones.
- DanBC 6y agoThe Nature article is correctly stating that sex is not as simple as chromosomes or genitalia, and that we should avoid classifying people into either gender or sex roles based on these.