It published an article saying that sex is a spectrum, and not binary, and then editorialized in favor of it. It said “the science behind Fuentes’s thesis. . . is solid.”
Biology professor Jerry Coyne remarks:
And Fuentes uses many of the bogus tropes employed to “prove” that sex is nonbinary, even showing a photo of a bluehead wrasse, a fish that forms polygynous groups. When the alpha male dies, one female gets rid of her ovaries and develops testes, taking over the top job. But there are still only two sexes! I have to say that you have to be either ignorant or tendentious to use this animal as an argument against the sex binary, and Fuentes isn’t ignorant. ...So there is a single-celled organism with seven sexes? News to me, but that tells us nothing about transgenderism in humans.The claim that “the number of mating types (often called “sexes”) has been variable over hundreds of millions of years, ranging from two and sometimes three in most animals, to as many as seven in single-celled animals. . ” is wholly misleading. Well, Dear Editors, all animals and vascular plants have just two sexes (which ones have three?), though single-celled organisms, algae and fungi can have more “mating type”, which I’m okay with calling “sexes”if you want. But Fuentes and the editors, are defending the thesis that animals, including our own species, have nonbinary sex. This is not true.
As far as I know, humans are 100% unambiguously male or female. I am no expert on this. If it turns out that there are some rare exceptions, that would have little or nothing to do with the transgender activism of today.
I am reminded of the evolution wars of 30 years ago, where leftist-atheist-evolutionists adamantly claimed to be on the side of science. Now they brazenly lie about basic biological facts. Some of them, anyway. I credit Jerry Coyne with coming clean on the facts, even when it does not match his ideology.
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Transgender is an umbrella term that covers similar looking things that really don't have much in common except external appearances.
Intersex is hermaphroditism, the person has been born with both genitalia to some degree.
This is a birth defect, and is unusually rare, the person usually has to at some point make some kind of choice which sex they will favor with surgery and hormonal treatment to avoid future medical problems.
Autogynephilia is a guy who receives sexual arousal and gratification from dressing and appearing as a woman. It is basically a sexual fetish, and has nothing to do with gender biologically. It is from this group that tranvestites became more commonly known. Female impersonators such as Ru Paul dress as women for entertainment value. This equation has changed remarkably in recent times due to the advent of what I consider largely a mental disorder.
The last and largest category under the transgender umbrella is a group that falls under body dysmorphic disorder. This is the by far most mentally unbalanced of all the sub groups under transgenderism, this is the group with a suicide attempt rate that challenges survivors of WWII German concentration camps. This group suffers from obsessive compulsive disorders, and is very frequently aligned with autism, it completely resembles a form of mass psychosis.
Many people in this category were affected by others who already had the disorder, the correlation numbers paint a grim picture, as this disorder is frequently learned from others with the same disorder. It has rarely been found in areas which don't openly promote such behavior, this has been remarked upon multiple times by even such left leaning personalities as Bill Maher.
Be sure you actually know which group is being discussed before becoming too caught up in the hype and noise surrounding it. As it stands, I consider anyone obsessing constantly over cutting off their own body parts as clearly in the mentally ill category. Self mutilation is not a lifestyle, or gender, or 'identity', unless you want to consider all mental illnesses as 'identities'.
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