I’m so old, I remember when NPR did legitimate science reporting.
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A Higher Authority Disagrees with Rep. Harris
God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
—Genesis 1:27
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The fit types seem excessively binary—
Well, yes, there is the neuter gender.
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No X or Y chromosomes were available for comment.
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Umm … no.
O Canada!
This is what happens when you let the wokies win.
Breaking: Biden Administration to Obey a Law
Although the Biden Administration has spent a significant amount of effort and political capital promoting the agenda of transsexual lobby, it is requiring strict obedience to the Selective Service Act. Except when they are members of the Armed Forces on active duty, all biological males between the ages of 18 and 25 must be registered with the Selective Service System.
Maxwell Q. Klinger was unavailable for comment.
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I’m growing weary of these science deniers—
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
I think so, Brain … but would a transgender Iron Man be Fe Male?
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Facebook is promoting a documentary series called 9 Months with Courteney Cox—
This is yet another reason to avoid Facebook.
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The New England Journal of Medicine has published a paper titled Failed Assignments — Rethinking Sex Designations on Birth Certificates which claims that designating a child’s sex on a birth certificate can be harmful. Here’s the paper’s abstract.
Sex designations on birth certificates offer no clinical utility, and they can be harmful for intersex and transgender people. Moving such designations below the line of demarcation wouldn’t compromise the birth certificate’s public health function but could avoid harm.
Boys and girls grow and develop at different rates and in different ways. I am not a physician, but it seems to me that knowledge of a child’s normally expected development should have real clinical utility and that ignoring it could be a form of malpractice.
BTW, neither of the two physicians among the paper’s authors is a pediatrician. The third author is a lawyer.
Titania McGrath was unavailable for comment.
The Facts of Life
While I don’t recommend the third behavior listed in Ms. Rowling’s tweet, I find it … um … interesting that she has been hounded by a Twitter mob (egged on by Vox) for the thoughtcrime of believing settled biological science.
OTOH, I’m so old that I remember when the Left referred to themselves as the “reality-based community.”
I’m So Old …
… that I remember when the Left described themselves a The Reality-Based Community and informed those who didn’t agree that they were Science Deniers. On Saturday, Twitter locked the account of a noted Ph.D. psychologist because he tweeted about his scientific opinion which was based on his years of clinical practice.
Here’s what got his account locked:
BTW, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, lists gender dysphoria as a mental disorder. DSM-V serves as the principal authority for psychiatric diagnoses, and Dr. Blanchard was one of the contributors to the current edition.
Twitter experienced significant pushback which included some users tweeting direct quotes from DSM-V and then daring Twitter to ban them for it. Late yesterday, Twitter restored Dr. Blanchard’s account.
Final Score: Science 1, Twitter Safety 0
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A NBC News report on transgender athletes contains this statement—
“There’s no simple or even complex biological test you can apply that tells you who’s a man and who’s a woman,” Roger Pielke Jr., director of the Sports Governance Center at the University of Colorado, said.
Dead Naming
I’ve been informed that my podcasting partner Stacy McCain has received a seven day suspension of his Twitter account because he engaged in “dead naming,” i.e., referring to a person presenting as the opposite sex of his or her biological sex by that person’s birth name.
Explaining Twitter Safety’s aversion to inconvenient truth might be easier if one could refer to Twitter Safety by its birth name, but the outfit’s exact origin is unclear. Cheka? Gestapo? Stasi? Savak? Miniluv? …
Cowards or Bullies
The Washington Times reports that Terry Miller of Bloomfield High has set a Connecticut girls’ state indoor record of 6.95 seconds in the 55 m sprint. Second place in the event was taken by Andraya Yearwood. Both Miller and Yearwood have Y-chromosomes. Third place in the event was taken by a girl.
I wonder if athletes such as Miller and Yearwood are afraid to compete on a level playing field or if they want to take advantage of weaker competitors or if I should embrace the Power Of And in such cases.
Chelsea Manning is No Longer a Fellow …
… at Harvard, but he still has a Y-chromosome.
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The Blaze reports that in Connecticut a transgender freshman sprinter, born a male, won two girls state championships. (H/T, Instapundit)
No East German female athletes were available for comment.
The Science is Settled …
… with regard to Selective Service. The American Thinker reports reports that only individuals with a Y-chromosome are required to register for the draft.
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The revised New York birth certificate form asks if the mother is male or female.
UPDATE—Perhaps this should have been posted under Don’t Know Much Biology.