If San Francisco isn’t the LGBTQ capital of the United States, it’s pretty darn close. So it makes sense that this guest opinion piece by a scientist — with a PhD, thank you very much! — who argues that science says that sex and gender not binary.
OPINION: Ask many Americans these days and they will insist there are only two sexes available for humans to inhabit: male or female. As a doctorate-carrying scientist, however, I attest that this is false, writes Ash Zemenick. https://t.co/fUN59FqIKo
— San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle) June 1, 2023
Here’s how Ash Zemenick’s (they/them) piece wraps up:
Fine. All those ways we categorize sex are not binary, you may be agreeing or conceding. But gender surely is, yes? Men are from Mars and women are from Venus, right? Nah. Here we now refer to sex of the mind, or what I’d like to call cerebral sex. This is one way to think about gender — how we, in our heads, think about ourselves and how we fit into our society and culture. While a doctor may need to know your genital or hormonal sex, society at large should always respect, define or treat people based on their cerebral sex. Cerebral sex, or gender, is the biological sex that may be furthest from the binary. Here we refer you to the lived experiences of your community members — they may be trans men, trans women, nonbinary folks and two-spirit people, amongst many other genders that are just a Google away. Don’t “believe” that these genders “exist”? They exist because people inhabit them, and because our brains and lived experiences have dictated them. Your gender exists because you inhabit yours. Cerebral sex/gender is not binary.
Now, you may still be disagreeing with me. You might be thinking that the binary definitions of biological sex are the true definition and that the variations I’ve described are just “exceptions to the rule.” I challenge you, though — how good of a definition of biological sex can it be if it does not capture the lived biologies and experiences of millions of humans? I argue that my definitions of biological sex, each one I’ve provided, are more biologically accurate than a binary view of sex, no matter the definition you choose — they more fully encapsulate the truth of nature and humanity.
So, dear reader, next time someone asks you if sex is binary, ask them, “How are you defining sex?” If they can’t answer, explain to them the different ways we can define biological sex. Explain that, no matter how you define it, biological sex is nonbinary.
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We could explain that … or we could just watch Ash get Community Notes’d by people who may not necessarily be “doctorate-carrying scientists” but are nonetheless familiar enough with basic biology to understand that Ash is just pulling this stuff out of their butt.
For the record, Community Notes, we always find it helpful when self-important, self-appointed authorities on The Science get taken to school. It’s been happening a lot lately, and we can’t get enough of it.
There are only two sexes, not only in humans but across the plant and animal kingdoms.
The two sexes across plant and animal species can be composed in the same individual or in separate individuals, but there are only ever two.https://t.co/nHBUM3BfGi
— Zach Elliott (@zaelefty) June 1, 2023
Intersex disorders are just that: DISORDERS.
They have been known about to my knowledge since the 1960s.
This isn’t “new science” this is old science being interpreted through the lens of activists.
— Audra Facinelli 🇺🇸 (@audraf637) June 1, 2023
What are the other sexes and what are the other pathways to reproduction? "As a scientist", I'm sure you can answer. There's probably a Nobel prize in it too!
— For Women Scotland (@ForWomenScot) June 2, 2023
Stop! Stop! They’re already dead!
(Please don’t stop.)
The author couldn't possibly be trying to justify 'their' identity at all through this article, could 'they'? pic.twitter.com/z3tYExkrN5
— 🦖 (@SaturnEatsSon) June 1, 2023
BUSTED. Wokism posing as scholarship.
— George From NY (@GeorgeFromNY1) June 2, 2023
Ding, ding, ding!
"As a doctorate-carrying scientist…" pic.twitter.com/0XtCw4PoCh
— Charles X Proxy™ (@Charlemagne0814) June 2, 2023
That line is so hilarious. We might have to use it for ourselves once in a while, just for giggles.
LMFAO
shove your doctorate up your ass – – – community noted https://t.co/sAQvDg6CwQ
— Fatima Al Asliken 🌈🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🧚♀️ (@assliken) June 2, 2023
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