Scientifically valid? What does that even mean? Science cannot make normative judgements
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Replying to @0x49fa98 @DanielleFong
Its not a judgement. Biology observes more than just 2 sexes, and some species can change biological sex naturally. Its determined by more than just X/Y chromosomes (hormones etc are in play). So even in biology, sex is a fluid spectrum
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And, the genes for sex determination jump every so often, via transposons. And gender is far more complex than sex anyway.
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Replying to @DanielleFong @bensima
All of this is sophistry. Humans have two sexes, and sometimes people are born deformed. Social science that purports to study gender empirically is not descriptive, it is prescriptive. The null hypothesis is defined by bureaucrats and lobbyists, and science simply obeys
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Moreover, if gender is a social construct then so is transgender, and quite a recent one.
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Replying to @0x49fa98 @DanielleFong
okay let's try specifying the concepts more precisely because your retort is confused. sexuality is a set of biologically-constructed categories primarily related to reproductive patterns, and is neither static nor binary (as nothing in biology is)
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gender is a set of socially-constructed categories related to how people organize themselves in society. its up to the society to determine its form (static/fluid, binary/trinary/otherwise). however you'd be hard pressed to find truly static/binary gender categories in history
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Replying to @bensima @DanielleFong
Not interested in your priestly pontificating. You types always do the same thing. You conflate the categories you construct with a prescription for how the world ought to work. Yes, there have always been some edge cases on what constitutes “man”, “woman”, “male”, “female”
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But until extremely recently we were quite happy to define these categories in terms of a binary, and ultimately, both are prescriptive. You cannot use “science” to make normative claims about this, it comes down to power
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I hate the new power and I wish to restore the old one. Might makes right
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If might makes right, might has moved into new realms, & neither the old power or this new one is likely to survive. We are in a war. I would rather co-create it than be enemies. If this is your bright line, let the stronger mindset win - it will not be one that denies existence.
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Replying to @DanielleFong @bensima
There is no possible reconciliation between my values and those of queer-sympathizers. My side is not in power right now. If it were, some kind of special quarantine zone would be the best I could offer
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