Scientists Argue Over Whether Trump is Right About the Existence of Only Two Sexes
This is what Trump does to the brains of otherwise normal seeming people. If science can’t agree on this, we have bigger problems than we thought.
The College Fix reports:
Leading scientists spar about Trump order stating sex is binaryProminent scientists are sparring over President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring there are “two sexes, male and female,” with some pushing back on the claim that a “scientific consensus” disagrees with the president.On one side are the leaders of three scientific organizations – the Society for the Study of Evolution, American Society of Naturalists, and Society of Systematic Biologists – who think Trump is wrong.On the other are a group of approximately two dozen biology scholars, including noted University of Chicago Professor Emeritus Jerry Coyne. They say sex is binary and scholars who claim otherwise are “[d]istorting reality to comply with ideology,” according to Coyne’s blog “Why Evolution is True.”Earlier this month, the presidents of the three scientific societies, Carol Boggs, Daniel Bolnick, and Jessica Ware wrote to Trump to state their disagreement with his order.“Scientific consensus defines sex in humans as a biological construct that relies on a combination of chromosomes, hormonal balances, and the resulting expression of gonads, external genitalia and secondary sex characteristics,” they wrote in a Feb. 5 letter, published on the Society for the Study of Evolution website.They said “extensive scientific evidence” contradicts Trump’s statement that “sex is determined at conception and is based on the size of the gamete that the resulting individual will produce.”“Beyond the incorrect claim that science backs up a simple binary definition of sex, the lived experience of people clearly demonstrates that the genetic composition at conception does not define one’s identity. Rather, sex and gender result from the interplay of genetics and environment,” they wrote.However, the letter angered some scientists who belong to the societies, including Coyne and Luana Maroja, a professor of biology at Williams College.
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