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Actually, sex and gender are not nearly as "simplistically binary" as this article makes it seem. Even forensic anthropologists, given a skeleton and DNA, talk
by SenAnder 3y ago
Actually, sex and gender are not nearly as "simplistically binary" as this article makes it seem. Even forensic anthropologists, given a skeleton and DNA, talk only about "sex estimation, not sex identification, a process that is probabilistic rather than clearly determinative, and that is easily influenced by cognitive bias on the part of the researcher."
Furthermore, "There is no single biological standard by which all humans can be reliably sorted into a binary male/female sex classification. On the contrary, anthropologists and others have long shown sex and gender to be historically and geographically contextual, deeply entangled, and dynamically mutable categories."
If even trained forensic anthropologists can at best only "estimate" sex, can we really believe lay observers, conducting very superficial examinations at this jobs fair, could give even a rough approximation of the sex/gender breakdown of the attendees?
Source: The American Anthropological Association: https://americananthro.org/news/no-place-for-transphobia-in-anthropology-session-pulled-from-annual-meeting-program/ https://americananthro.org/news/no-place-for-transphobia-in-...