Hello everyone, I was on the edge of peaking when the GC subreddit got banned. GCdebatesQT has gone private and with no place to ask my questions I didn't know what to do. A GC friend I met on reddit gave me the link to the saidit GC and I felt relief. I'm not really scientifically literate, so if there are scientifically literate GCs here, could you please show me where and why these scientists are wrong in saying "sex is not binary and is a spectrum"?
This scientist on Twitter says "sex is a spectrum"; https://twitter.com/ScienceVet2/status/1035246030500061184
They say; "A human result of the scientific conclusion that sex is a spectrum and intersex people are a perfectly normal result of nature, is that there is no scientific rationale for medically (or culturally) forcing people into those two peaks ...
And one more note that "spectrum" does not mean that there aren't clusters of people. Just like the spectrum of human voice range has more baritones than super-bases ..."
There was another scientist on that thread saying it's wrong to say "sex is a spectrum", but they got attacked with people telling them things like;
""People are male or female, with a very small number of anomalies." People also said the same about homosexuality as being an "anomaly". Thanks for your rigid viewpoint. I'm sure it will crush people in the future."
""Here's the reasons why the old data is bad data."
"But the old data exists therefore you're new data is wrong."
This attitude is stifling science. Your patients require you to keep up with the latest literature, not stubbornly refuse medical advancement."
"Would it possibly be more correct to say that this hasn't been the way medical scientists have thought about human sex? Imo, just because two boxes works 98% of the time, doesn't mean the other 2% don't deserve care that wasn't designed for a different sex."
"And I'm a PhD in human evolutionary genetics and my partner is an MD, just because the establishment 'think about it' like that, doesn't make it true, 150 years ago medicine would equate skull shape and features to intelligence..."
People are actually saying the idea that sex is binary is outdated and is not supported by today's data and information
This scientific article says "the idea of two sexes is simplistic. Biologists now think there is a wider spectrum than that"; https://www.nature.com/news/sex-redefined-1.16943
This is a scientific article saying "sex is anything but binary"; https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/stop-using-phony-science-to-justify-transphobia/
This too; https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-new-science-of-sex-and-gender/
And finally this biology professor says "sex is not a binary" here; https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/opinion/sex-biology-binary.html
If anyone can debunk what these scientists and scientific articles said, I would be overjoyed!
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