{"id":19977,"date":"2020-02-14T20:17:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T02:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=19977"},"modified":"2020-02-14T20:17:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T02:17:37","slug":"there-are-only-two-sexes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/there-are-only-two-sexes\/","title":{"rendered":"There Are Only Two Sexes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t

Source: <\/strong>Michael W. Chapman, “Biologists in WSJ: Only Two Sexes, Male and Female, There is No Sex ‘Spectrum’<\/a>“, CNS News, 14 February 2020.<\/p>\n

Source:\u00a0<\/b>Colin M. Wright and Emma N. Hilton, “The Dangerous Denial of Sex,<\/a>” Wall Street Journal, Opinion, 13 February 2020.<\/p>\n

Colin Wright\u00a0is an evolutionary biologist at Penn State.\u00a0Emma Hilton\u00a0is a developmental biologist at the University of Manchester.<\/p>\n

With the phenomenon of some men saying they “identify” as women and some women saying they “identify” as men, or any “gender identity” combination therein, “we see a dangerous and anti-scientific trend toward the outright denial of biological sex.”<\/p>\n

This notion that there is a sex “spectrum,” where people can choose “to identify as male or female,” regardless of their anatomy, is irrational and has “no basis in reality,”\u00a0say the biologists. “It is false at every conceivable scale of resolution.”<\/p>\n

“No third type of sex cell exists in humans, and therefore there is no sex \u201cspectrum\u201d or additional sexes beyond male and female,” state the biologists.\u00a0\u00a0“Sex\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>binary.” Furthermore, “the existence of only two sexes does not mean sex is never ambiguous,” write Hilton and Wright.\u00a0\u00a0“But intersex individuals are extremely rare, and they are neither a third sex nor proof that sex is a ‘spectrum’\u00a0or a ‘social construct.'”<\/p>\n

When authoritative scientific institutions ignore or deny empirical fact in the name of social accommodation, it is an egregious betrayal to the scientific community they represent. It undermines public trust in science, and it is dangerously harmful to those most vulnerable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them<\/em>” (Genesis 1:27).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: Michael W. Chapman, “Biologists in WSJ: Only Two Sexes, Male and Female, There is No Sex ‘Spectrum’“, CNS News, 14 February 2020. Source:\u00a0Colin M. Wright and Emma N. Hilton, “The Dangerous Denial of Sex,” Wall Street Journal, Opinion, 13 February 2020. Colin Wright\u00a0is an evolutionary biologist at Penn State.\u00a0Emma Hilton\u00a0is a developmental biologist at…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[42],"tags":[307,305],"class_list":["post-19977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issues","tag-genders","tag-transgenderism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18773,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/you-cannot-say-there-are-only-two-sexes\/","url_meta":{"origin":19977,"position":0},"title":"You Cannot Say There Are Only Two Sexes","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 21, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Source: Alex Griswold, \"Denver Post Columnist Fired After Arguing There Are Two Sexes,\" The Washington Free Beacon, 20 January 2020. 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