Rex Kerr
Nov 27, 2022

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Agreed, but trying to fix societal problems by misrepresenting biology (or any other science) is foolishness. Reality has a very unpleasant habit of making itself known whether you want it to or not.

So it's not a good idea to promote ideas like "if science expects to be objective, 'sex' is a useless concept".

One way or another, society is going to have to accept that (1) sex is a useful, well-defined scientific concept, (2) there are rare cases where sexual dimorphism is absent or isn't expressed in the most common way, and (3) a compassionate society that fulfills the needs of all of its members is going to have to grapple with (2) without denying (1).

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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