This thread’s title is misleading. Not the first time OP has pulled this shit.

Articles published on SciAm’s blogs subdomain are opinion pieces published in its Voices series. OP is misrepresenting the nature of this article in the same way TRAs do by presenting it as authoritative. If a first-year biology student submitted this work their professor would summon them to the office.

SciAm (a popular-science monthly), like Nature (a scholarly journal), are clearly doing this for woke clicks and to avoid woke drama but that is not the same as being under the thumb of a sinister TRA conspiracy. There’s no need to invoke conspiracies when market forces and editorial cowardice explain events sufficiently.

BTW SciAm devoted an entire issue to gender ideology in 2017. In July Margaret Atwood was embarrassingly taken in by it as well as the article this thread's about. She started tweeting about gay penguins and 'hermaphrodites'. Actual scientists had to point a few things out to her, and her comments didn't go down well with intersex people either.