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The College Fix reports:
UW-Madison ‘Inclusive STEM’ panelist says gender binary is ‘eugenic construct’“The sex binary originated as a eugenic construct,” Sam Sharpe, a teaching instructor from Kansas State University, said at a gender studies panel at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Sharpe (pictured) gave a presentation titled “Facilitating Intersex Embodiment Through Inclusive STEM Pedagogy” at the Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium conference last Friday, April 12.The instructor uses “they/them” pronouns and “is a transgender and intersex peer support worker, researcher, advocate, and educator.” Sharpe is also a “drag performer” according to the instructor’s profile at the Eating Recovery Center.The College Fix attended the event, but the organizers banned all media from taking photos and recording audio and video. Recording is prohibited throughout the entire three-day conference held at the publicly funded university.“Through collaboration with feminist studies scholars, I learned that the idea of a discrete sex binary did not originate from validated biological inquiry but from cultural prejudices validated by eugenics and subsequently enshrined into a self-perpetuating ideology, ” Sharpe further stated.The presentation’s description states that, “… STEM educators and clinicians have an ethical obligation to challenge the portrayal of intersex as a biological oddity, humanize the way they communicate and teach about sex, and support the work of intersex rights movements toward facilitating the possibility for authentic intersex embodiment.”“In contrast, a feminist approach to teaching sex diversity must actively address and disrupt these hegemonic ideas of a sex binary,” the presentation states.Sharpe’s presentation was part of a panel titled “Embodiment and Well-Being in STEM” that consisted of two 15-minute presentations, a 30-minute panel, and a Q&A session.In the talk, Sharpe recommended STEM educators provide examples of sex diversity when teaching biology, for example other species with more than two sexes like some fungi and sex-switching clown fish.“We can situate variation in sex traits alongside other forms of human biological variation such as height and eye color,” Sharpe stated.
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