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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It really depends on what he said.  I view this like evolution.  Anyone that says “There is no scientific proof of evolution” has no business teaching science in a public school.  But someone who said “There is still a lot of uncertainty about evolution” would be correct because we are constantly learning new things about the time frame and the manner of evolution (such as the relatively recent discovery that many of us have a fair amount of Neanderthal DNA).
Like evolution, there are still a lot of unanswered questions about the timing and details of climate change.  Thank God we have scientists studying it so we can make increasingly informed decisions.  [/quote]

Try stating in a high school biology class today that we can classify humans as male or female based on their distinctly different physiological and biological traits, and you will be met with strong resistance and accusations of "hate speech" about what once was largely considered to be "settled science."

We now need to pretend to ignore all we know about biology in favor of embracing "transgender women ARE women" so that fewer than 1% of the population who are transgender to not have to confront any feelings of discomfort connected to their dysphoria. I am all for compassion for those whose brains are not connecting with their biological makeup...but humoring someone is not a legitimate reason to ignore science altogether.[/quote]

I think you need to look at contemporary scientific research on genetics and gender-- genetics, physiology, and neuroscience all are pointing to gender as a complex spectrum of traits not a simple binary male/female.  Prior to this body of research, people assumed that simply chromosomes identified male/female.  So there wasn't much of a scientific research on gender prior to advances in genetics.  But even before then,  physiology has always posed difficulties--for instance, there are many people whose secondary sex features don't match traditional gender norms--societies have historically done a lot of work through clothing, hairstyles, practices, behaviors to make the binary seem more distinct than it would be otherwise. [/quote]

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