Why Biological Sex Is Being Undermined - Dr. Colin Wright

Dr. Colin Wright is an evolutionary biology Ph.D., Manhattan Institute Fellow, Academic Advisor for the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine, and a member of Genspect’s new think tank, The Killarney Group. Wright began writing publicly about issues of sex and gender in 2018. His articles have been published in the Wall Street Journal, The Times, New York Post,
Newsweek, City Journal, Quillette, and other major news outlets, as well as peer-reviewed journals and book chapters. He has been a guest on many popular TV shows and podcasts, such as The Joe Rogan Experience, Tucker Carlson Tonight, Triggernometry, and others.
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[@johnashton3088]

I'm an academic biologist nearing retirement. We've been here before, many times. Every few years a subset of scientists, doctors, therapists, and academics goes nuts for a while, thinking they are the new civil rights or gay rights movement. This time it's harder to have them see how mad they are, due to the internet, the corruption of schools of education, and the sinister emotional blackmail played especially on trans parents (parents of "trans") with the hideous suicide narrative. Also, now, academic journals are corrupt (money grabbing) and have sold out. It takes ordinary people, "contrarian" journalists, and a gathering groundswell to dowse the conflagration.

[@maggienewton8518]

count this ordinary person in. Thanks for this.

[@West-for-Whites_NonWhites-Out]

The normalisation of the abnormal, see gay, was also part of this nuts past.

[@mystic22g4]

Colins mentioned females producing gamete eggs and males producing gamete sperm one of the biggest rebuttal to binary is not all females produce eggs and not all males produce sperm. Therefore, how are they placed as binary male or female if they don’t produce gametes.

[@NicoleTedesco]

@@mystic22g4in biology it is difficult to find much that is black and white, but it is reasonable and useful to define the bell curves and define “normal.” At some point, you can bring it to evolutionary terms when thinking about normal such as asking the questions, what helps the critter survive and what allows the species to successfully propagate? Oddities occur all the time for whatever disorder in whatever species. Cats and dogs get epilepsy too. At what point does it prevent the critter from surviving into reproductive years and at what point does it reduce the chances for reproductive success? We can define normal using the negative criteria or failure to survive and reproduce. Of course, in humans this is a little more complex. We can fail to reproduce but non-reproducing humans continue to play important roles in human societies and aid others in reproducing and helping to raise, protect, or simply inspire the young of other parents. While intersex people exist, that doesn’t mean that they will reproduce (chances are they will not), nor does it even mean they will survive (e.g., Turner’s syndrome). What you are referring to is the myth of essentialism, that somehow there is a Platonic essence built into us that is either male or female. Many times, this essentialism is driven by religious dogma. That is another discussion to have, but that is not a biological discussion.

[@mystic22g4]

@@NicoleTedesco I understand that when it comes to humans there is not always genetic or biological conformity which is why birth defects and disorders of sex development exists. However if male and female is strictly based gametes how do we define those who don’t produce gametes yet they primarily develop as male or female . I don’t believe there exists a spectrum of sexes and consider Swyer individuals as not true males chromosomes due to having a mutated or missing SRY gene .

[@robertjones7327]

Sex is observed at birth, not assigned.

[@RKingis]

It's a Intersex term after an infant's genital mutation.

[@hhlptf]

Yeah that's true, good thing it's gender they are changing not sex. Google definitions of words 5 seconds before replying

[@Acoustic-Rabbit-Hole]

I was assigned female at birth. By God.

[@hhlptf]

@Acoustic-Rabbit-Hole God came down and told everyone you were female? That's wild my guy, did your parents take pictures or just too awestruck by gods presence?

[@hhlptf]

Wild that there's a difference between genetics and gender. Almost like dna is totally different than how humans perceive reality

[@rogerflack415]

I suspect for most of us this is like wandering around a lunatic asylum and finally hearing someone talking rationally. The more voices the better. Strength in numbers.

[@dalebaker3799]

Look what happened to Jordan Peterson.

[@dalebaker3799]

@@PoliticalTheatreTV-eu6tt And what would those be ?

[@Chriscraft50]

​@PoliticalTheatreTV-eu6tt you believe in compelled speach. That's just pure lunacy. Peterson is correct on this.

[@nicolenewsome4863]

​@@dalebaker3799What about him he seems to be doing fine.

[@nicolenewsome4863]

​@@PoliticalTheatreTV-eu6ttIdiotic? common sense you mean.

[@dalebaker3799]

Trans idealogy is a secular religion/cult

[@highroller-jq3ix]

The transphobic hate cult is a religious-based western Talibanic form of theofascism.

[@juliesheard2122]

Too right. Its a cult worse than Scientology!!!

[@slavicemperor8279]

@trinitybassguitar-ru6dz it's a fact.

[@Mr_user_1000]

Not really, Christian god is non-binary, after all. In fact, god has multiple personalities, sometimes he thinks he's Jesus, sometimes Mary and sometimes "god". Sounds trans to me.

[@slavicemperor8279]

@trinitybassguitar-ru6dz Which one?

[@aelfredrex8354]

Remember, we're all here because of that binary. Let them try to refute that.

[@user-fh6uq6wt7p]

Exactly!

[@TheKastellan]

Who..is trying to refute that? That isn't a point made by anyone, you just made a point and said it is something "they" are against. You sound stupid. Make an actually intelligent argument.

[@mrtriffid]

Typical "breeder" rationalization! 😆(I'm joking)

[@highroller-jq3ix]

Yah, that them. Weirdly, that dopey attempt at profundity doesn't account for biological reality however.

[@TheKastellan]

Did youtube delete my comment? Also no one refutes that, why are you making up an argument that is obviously dumb to argue against...that's sad.

[@lornadoell]

Remember "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."Voltaire? Cutting up your children for no good reason, seems to me an atrocity.

[@jb-xc4oh]

Transitioning children should be classified as a criminal offense punishable by a lengthy prison term because it is severe child abuse.

[@opinion3742]

Flat earthers think it is absurd to believe the world turns on its axis and goes round the sun. After all common sense would tell you that that is clearly not true! Damn, we let so many people convince us of absurdities. The fact that so many people can't see a reactionary fascistic conspiracy when it is shoved in their face makes me fear for the human race.

[@psyience3213]

Oh it is

[@conillet]

Excellent point

[@opinion3742]

@@conillet Excellent point? Misusing a quote to stir up hatred toward a vulnerable community? There is a passage in Mein Kampf that does this exact same thing, only they are talking about the "J*wish Media". It is shameful bog standard reactionary moral panic.

[@bestill365]

When I was a little girl, I hung out with boys, I hated barbies, I loved sports, I wanted to join the boy scouts and I really tried hard to walk like my older brother. However, I never ever equated that I was a boy because of those things.

[@broark88]

You're evidence that girls can do those things too, while gender ideologues would regressively say this is evidence you were a boy!

[@excalibro8365]

@@PoliticalTheatreTV-eu6tt not as delusional as the trans ideology

[@broark88]

@@PoliticalTheatreTV-eu6tt Says someone who otherwise defends the elevation of imagination to reality itself. "I like 'boy' things so I must be a boy and take testosterone!" Nothing delusional about that....

[@tracygeddes5867]

And what has your unique experience got to do with anyone else. How does your position invalidate another who walks a different path or are you so special that all should conform to you, your truth,your feelings. I think you are delusional if you think your position override’s all.

[@broark88]

@@tracygeddes5867 The point expressed here is that there is no right way to be a boy or a girl; but the idea that a female child should be halted in her natural development, sterilized and mutilated to resemble a boy absolutely does assume that she was 'girl-ing' wrong and needed 'correction'. This view is so astoundingly regressive, sexist, and homophobic, and especially given how children are being inculcated with it, it can only be described as religious.

[@Andrew-mv2qb]

‘The Issue’ is never really ‘The Issue’. ‘The Issue’ is always the Revolution.

[@Knuck_Knucks]

Less Marxist sympathizers in this comments section then in James'. Lol... 🐿

[@JoseRojasA]

Thank you, understanding this is foundational. To dismiss the arguments for multisex as delusional is to miss the point; to miss the purpose. They gladly sacrifice reason for the Revolution. This is why they can say nonsense with a straight face. Exhibit one, the “scientific study” that ends with a “call to arms” in a scientific journal. Nature! Exhibit 2 is What is reasonable end state of a multisex-spectrum world? For human society, this is extinction. How could such a society reach a 2.1 offspring per binary woman ratio which is minimum to sustain a population. The math doesn’t work if 1/2? Of the biological woman are too much on the male spectrum side y To have children.

[@liz9284]

Took the words out of my mouth.

[@gems3604]

Amen. Too many people get caught up in the emotion of this tryannnical thinking and not enough about who gains from all this rubbish. People quickly say it's about money. Well, aren't there easier ways to make money? I'm with you. This is about a complete upending of society for the purposes of mass control. A revolution.

[@justicar5]

so all this anti-trans and maga chud frenzy is just a smoke screen for a theocratic revolution? Makes sense.

[@PlatanosConAqua]

I’m Gen Z, 22, and Male. If you would’ve told me 10 years ago that in some parts of the world my generation was being indoctrinated with pseudoscientific theories about the “reality” of Sex/Gender, I would’ve never believed you. Hell, I wouldn’t have even understood you! Even as a child, it was apparent to me that there can only be two sexes, but yet here we are. I sincerely hope that one day we are able to extinguish the identity politic lunacy that has been perpetrated by our governments and academia in the last decade. If we don’t fight and stand for the truth now, I don’t see a world where my children will be able to distinguish what is real versus what is fake!

[@ridleyroid9060]

Gen z 25 male and in the same boat. It's a clown show but I believe we'll have the last laugh.

[@Pugh.Pugh.BarneyMcGrew]

I think once governments wake up to the general economic collapse, due to population decline, all these crazy things will go away in a great hurry. I just can't see voters voting for a politician who supports closing a soup kitchen, or homeless shelter, because a few kids need gender affirming care.

[@StudentDad-mc3pu]

So trans people don't exist?

[@jibberism9910]

How about this is the actual goal? All that fake "progressive" BS we see now comes straight from these powercenters. @@Pugh.Pugh.BarneyMcGrew

[@matthewatwood8641]

I keep telling people to stop worrying about your generation. I see a lot of young folks getting pissed off. It warms the cockles of my heart.

[@shiteetah]

I’m a physiologist, my entire life has been based on using the bedrock of scientific inquiry for answering questions, even seemingly mundane ones because it’s the most reliable method we have. Now that bedrock has been infiltrated with clay and that part has turned from data focus to emotional focus. I hope I’m wrong in my opinion that there is an insidious plan to burn down everything out of spite simply because they imagine they feel powerless in the current paradigm. And while science has often informed political decisions in history, I can’t find a time when a fake version of it has been forged and then used as a political dragnet. I’m pushing sixty and it breaks my heart to see our species come so far with science, human/animal rights and enlightenment in general only to see the West stand to lose it all by the time I’m Im ash. Thank you for standing up for science. Heather and Brett are heroes in my opinion.

[@dave-kt7sj]

Fake science was often used in the civil war, against the idea of evolution, and of course in Nazi Germany. In many cases, this fake science was used to oppress others. I'm not sure exactly how expanding our definitions in science is particularly harmful to anyone. For example, the geocentric model is harmful because it obfuscates a relatively simple idea. It's not explicitly wrong, as it's all a reference plane. The Bohr model of the atom is the opposite: it's very incorrect, but it simplifies a much more complex situation. Sex as defined by Dr. Wright can't be 1 bit though. It has to be 2 bits (at least, for each type of gamete). It is functionally the same as blood type. In blood, you produce A or B antigens or neither, resulting in 4 fundamental blood types (ignore RH). This is really basic math. I think it's more important socially and culturally to observe phenotypes rather than genotypes. Science (and its usefulness to society) needs to look at both genotypes and phenotypes wholistically rather than focusing entirely genotypically like it seems Dr. Wright is suggesting.

[@ericstogner2222]

Amen - this is a much larger thing than just this gender inversion. This is a human global spiritual attack that only will have a spiritual solution to it. This is all described in te Bible - revelation and other prophetic sections. There are a few who understand and are reporting about this - but the masses are asleep, distracted and deceived.

[@jb-xc4oh]

Its about the narrative and agenda of the globalists that want absolute control to serve their own needs at the detriment of the majority.

[@opinion3742]

You are full of crap. This isn't standing up for science. It is standard reactionary moral panic and has nothing to do with the actual practice scientific inquiry. What questions have you asked about the trans experience. I too am in my 60s! Thank god I didn't carry all that was worst about the times I grew up in.

[@chrismaxwell1624]

Wouldn't a psychologist know this has been happening for thousands of years. Look at indigenous culture for example. I'm no psychologists, though have an interest and took psych 101 and criminal psychology for kicks but I am aware of my indigenous past stories of two spirited people too. Just because we can medically do something doesn't mean we should. Seem a lot of this could more about making money off this in drugs and surgeries in many cases. I'd just want to know for sure that people are talked into going meds and getting surgeries to increase profits. If that's the case someone wants do that I consider the same and other body modifications people do for what ever reason they do it.

[@ransakreject5221]

I must be a genius. I figured out there were 2 sexes when I was just 3 or 4 years old

[@brittybee6615]

Imagine how much more difficult it would have been if everyone around you was taking weird hormones, though.

[@lynnebarnes3840]

Me too, from a fellow genius.

[@matthewatwood8641]

My son is four, yeah he pretty much has that one figured out.

[@NightmareRex6]

@@brittybee6615or get a date with a "woman" to learn its a male....... really its an "abomination"!

[@dchappy6985]

No, that only shows you were not ivy league educated. 😂

[@minitea4315]

100% this madness has overtaken us because people who have kids are so busy raising them, while people without kids have time to disrupt them.

[@jerrylev59]

It's like saying that if one in a billion is born with one arm, it's not clear whether or not having two arms is normal. "Armed-ness" is a spectrum.

[@SandyAZ1776]

LOL😂

[@briansmith303]

That's true. The whole movement is about normalizing the outliers. Everybody want to be identically significant, no matter how much reality you have to ignore to get there.

[@janegardener1662]

The new sex/gender thing is madness, it's mass hysteria of some sort.

[@hhlptf]

Nope, it's scientific discovery. Like germs, and gas, and atoms there is always a few that just don't have the capacity to understand it. That's OK cuz all that stuff still functions despite your lack of awareness and knowledge, just like gender

[@asandax6]

I think it's more of a population physiological response. We may be approaching critical mass terms of population and thus our minds are reacting by going down paths that will lead to less population growth or more population decline. The biggest question is whether this is natural or engineered?

[@hhlptf]

@asandax6 my guy I swear to God you're in another post whining about migrants and how we can't afford to take care of Americans how can we take care of migrants but then you're also here complaining about "low population"? We have so much land and so much resources being stolen and hidden away by the rich elites and instead you're focusing on someone wanting to wear a dress more often or be treated slightly differently than everybody else (something we do anyway) I wonder if THAT is intentional (it is) keep the low IQ people busy hating the ones they don't understand so the rich can keep harvesting you like a crop. It's not "new" you're just uneducated 🤷‍♀️ gender and sex aren't even the same thing and never were yall just are too embarrassed to say "sex" for fear God will smite you down where you stand. Don't believe me? Cuz you never bothered to even look the definitions up here they are Gender refers to the characteristics of women, men, girls and boys that are socially constructed. This includes norms, behaviours and roles associated with being a woman, man, girl or boy, as well as relationships with each other. As a social construct, gender varies from society to society and can change over time. Sex is the trait that determines whether a sexually reproducing organism produces male or female gametes. Now tell me why they have 2 different definitions if they are the same things? Because they aren't 🤷‍♀️ identifying as female, doesn't mean you can't have kids, identifying as non binary, doesn't mean your genitals fall off. Which logically would mean? Yes,they can still all have children. What's more insane is how YOU can be allowed to have children but lack the ability to understand basic word definitions that take about 10 seconds total for both to find with today's technology

[@janegardener1662]

@@asandax6 Yes, it's political now. Before it was just about "acceptance". Now you have to kowtow to the pronoun people in order to force acknowledgement of something that isn't true. A man CANNOT become a woman, no matter how much makeup he puts on.

[@janegardener1662]

@@asandax6 Gay people have always been with us. Throughout most of history they were asking for "equal rights". Now they want "special privileges.

[@pluijm2]

The idea that sex is a spectrum is absolute nonsense, (and they know it). Yet this needs to be repeated and repeated and repeated........It's the only thing we can do to fight this lunacy.

[@pluijm2]

@trinitybassguitar-ru6dz Sexual preference perhaps, but not gender, male or female that's it

[@fredneecher1746]

@@pluijm2 Sex or gender? Why slide between the two as if there were the same? Yet everyone does this! Male and female are the adjectives that describe sex. Those that describe gender are masculine and feminine. Ask yourself what nouns attach to those adjectives.

[@pluijm2]

@@fredneecher1746 That's great and all, but that doesn't mean that one can pick and choose gender the way woke wants it to be. Gender is not a spectrum either. Basicly it's the same thing as sex,

[@TheDarkWiiPlayer]

"repeated and repeated and repeated" Yep. This is how cults operate. Instead of actually rationalising their positions, they repeat them over and over again, until everyone inside the group believes it and those who don't have been shunned. This is how they keep you from questioning the doctrine. It's a thought-stopping technique; they're used by nearly every high-control group to some extent.

[@adriannalikespuzzles]

@@TheDarkWiiPlayer I had the exact same thought as you! Repeating things over and over again until everyone believes it is brainwashing.

[@suzann5312]

Around the age of 4 I wanted to be a boy. It made sense, I was constantly told,girls don't play with cars, don't fight( although I needed to protect myself from bullies) , had to wear dresses even though I was cold all the time, can't climb trees or monkey bars, etc, hated the smells in the hair salon and wanted to get my hair cut in the barber shop( that had a cool horse chair for kids). I told everyone I was a boy. Today I would have been transitioned.

[@roaroa5291]

I grew up playing with both boys and girls, with dolls and legos, running, jumping, fighting, wearing pants when going outside to play. I never realized there are people stuck in the 60s, where you can't do this or that because of your sex/gender until I grew up.

[@altruisticflower9627]

Until you were 11 or so, “being transitioned” would just have meant being allowed to do the things you mention doing or wanting to do in your comment, and going by a different name and pronouns if you wanted. Going further than those reversible steps would have required your ongoing desire to do so, along with the approval of a mental health professional and a doctor.

[@dustinmartin2369]

@@altruisticflower9627I know at least one person who just got hormones from Planned Parenthood so the whole gatekeeping by professionals is no longer a true statement

[@altruisticflower9627]

@@dustinmartin2369 The comment I responded to was about pediatric transition; what is Planned Parenthood’s minimum age for informed-consent HRT?

[@TheRisky9]

@@altruisticflower9627 The problem is that it doesn't go away. I can attest as a tomboy myself, I can tell you that it doesn't go away. You like what you like. I didn't grow out of my tomboy phase until I was 18 or 19 years old. I still haven't completely gone away from it, and I'm now 40. If you add autism to the mix, then on top of being a tomboy, you also now have social issues relating to peers. And you're prone to suggestion.

[@vcbrittney4072]

No one ever talks about the hormone disrupting chemicals that are being ingested in huge amounts via processed foods and skin care/hygiene products. It’s no wonder people feel they are in the wrong body.

[@lisadixon3127]

Pesticides, toxic chemicals castrating pests, grow toxic food in toxic soil, ingest, and viola...no one knows their sex.

[@DeeMcCarthy-mg7lz]

In everyone's municipal drinking water there's a ton of hormones from contraceptive pills

[@lornadoell]

And now there are BPAs in our leggings. If you let those tight pants touch your junk, your genitalia get messed with.

[@opinion3742]

It doesn't matter what the cause is. Our sexual makeup is determined by our chemical evolution. We are the same human being playing different sexual roles.

[@zeenuf00]

People talk about it all the time. You sleeping?

[@InfamyOrDeath-__-]

It’s hard to believe that delusional has become so widespread throughout society today. How on earth did this happed to get so bad in less than a decade?

[@InfamyOrDeath-__-]

@trinitybassguitar-ru6dz It’s the other way around, your delusional ramblings are the ones that don’t count.

[@InfamyOrDeath-__-]

@trinitybassguitar-ru6dz Hahaha that’s hilarious, “current research” done by ideologically captured organisations. Absolutely no research needs to be done whatsoever, it’s so obviously ridiculous that all I do now is laugh at all this nonsense. It’s hard to even comprehend how detached from reality this entire movement is.

[@DrSleazoid]

Gender identity research ist 0% science and 100% ideology.

[@Mouse_Metal]

@trinitybassguitar-ru6dz Stop bullying people through the whole comment section.

[@jugendamthamburg-ggkonform381]

Because normal people are busy with real work and taking care of their babies and elderly family members. There is a lot of funds being taken ba ygenerdaga in some western universities, and some queer men want early sexual emancipation of the children of other people, many same-sex couples who want children and cannot together have biological children need other people's babies and demand any man can be a mother to justify taking a baby from his or her mother...

[@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf]

Good on you mate for standing up to this madness. It`s in Australia too. Simply crap

[@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf]

@trinitybassguitar-ru6dz Does to me matey

[@tomohalloran5217]

The Australian government forces gender theory into primary schools under the guise of anti bullying programs. Kids are forced to engage and sit through it for 2 hours a week from prep to Yr 10

[@opinion3742]

Yea, because anything that falls outside of your own limited view of how reality works has got to be madness hasn't it? We are presented with a phenomenon here - is it actually smart just to dismiss it as so much nonsense? Is that the scientific approach? Or is it what reactionary bigots do in the name of their twisted notion of what constitutes the moral order? What does history tell us?

[@megaloschemos9113]

There isn't a spectrum of gametes, so there isn't a spectrum of sexes. The fact that we have the term 'intersex' means that it's between the defined sexes. If sex is a spectrum then there is no such thing as intersex. Great talk, thank you 💯💯

[@baconsarny-geddon8298]

People with "Intersex conditions" AREN'T"between the sexes". EVERY person with EVERY one of the various "intersex conditions" (which is a loose, subjective umbrella-term; Ask different doctors, and you'll get a diferent specific list of what is/isn't "an intersex condition") is either a female, or a male, just like every person, hell every MAMMAL, is either female, or male. No "in between". No "third option". People with "intersex conditions" (or more accurately, "DSDs", "Disorders of sexual development"), are just ATYPICAL females, or ATYPICAL males, with maybe a genital deformity, or hormonal, or chromosomal abnormality... But NONE of these make that person "less female/male", any more than missing a toe makes you "less bipedal". The way sexual reproduction works, sex CAN ONLY be a binary; a strict, universal binary. EVERY person (also individual mammal, every bird, most vertebrates, most insects, even many plants) have exactly ONE large gamete-having female parent, and ONE small gamete-having male parent. No exceptions. "Intersex condition" or not, no male is "more male" than any other male. No female is "more female" than any other female. We are ALL just either 100% female. Or 100% female. (Regardless of whether or not we have an intersex condition, or any other medical issue)

[@lavenderbee3611]

The proponents say that gender is on a spectrum. The word gender has been hijacked and redefined as something akin to a "feeling" or "personality", a social construct. How they get to the stage of dangerous hormones and surgeries is a mystery to me. It's all a bunch of codswallop.

[@hhlptf]

Weird, that in the Torah (a book over 2 thousand years old) confirms that trans people existed and even then they comprehended this very simple topic

[@Acoustic-Rabbit-Hole]

Good to know. It’s funny to see Matt Walsh on the subject. He literally seethes in contempt at the idea of a man in panties. @@hhlptf

[@daviru02]

​@hhlptf Interesting. I've seen videos talking about cultures falling in the past when the people on a large scale start obsessing about sex. Douglas Murray mentions this as does well a known femenist.

[@Islas_Canarias]

I always laugh at the gender ideologues and ask them to tell me the name of the scientist who won the Nobel Prize in science for discovering that sex is a spectrum. Nobody has ever been able to give me a name. They never will either.

[@hexxan007]

Don't bet too much. If i remember correctly, the Nobel prize for medicine recently went to the developers of a deadly bioweapon.

[@philv2529]

Just wait they'll probably do it soon

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

Wait till a few of the loons get on the Nobel Prize board!!

[@johnbrown4568]

Dr. Wright is an outstanding biologist. Thank you for hosting him and posting this presentation.

[@user-hn9nh4mp2c]

🙏

[@broark88]

The most revered scientists are those who were just brave enough to state the truth in the face of popular lies.

[@broark88]

@@PoliticalTheatreTV-eu6tt Alright, how about her? kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4S5k4Fsqa6sicUsi=o01__5xwTqokHE1L

[@broark88]

@@PoliticalTheatreTV-eu6tt This is the problem with religion: no evidence will ever be good enough to dissuade the true believer.

[@JD-xd4sy]

@@PoliticalTheatreTV-eu6tt Please give some substance behind your accusations, otherwise it's hard to take you seriously

[@carinaekstrom1]

The craziness has been going on for a while, and it's probably heading to such an extreme that hopefully the pendulum will soon start to swing towards a more sensible reality. I remember about ten years ago talking to a gay person who also was an administrator in a Facebook group for vegetarians. I don't know how we got to talking about sex and gender identity, but I did mention that some people regret transitioning their bodies, just as a matter of fact. I was not being the slightest disrespectful or impolite, but that statement was enough for this person to call me a transphobic and block me from this group that had a focus on a completely different subject. At that point I realised that there were some serious mental imbalances going on in some people. Nobody dared to publically contradict what the person did, but some people contacted me privately and mentioned how unfair it was.

[@daviru02]

They can't stand to hear facts. You can see it in everything they do

[@surfinterf7381]

@@daviru02 Hes not a typical gay person. The marjority are as fed up with this nonsense as everyone else

[@nerys71]

Because you are a transphobe what are the reason could you have to bring that up to a gay person some people regret the changes they made? The obvious implication of you mentioning that is that they never should have changed to begin with but the idea of changing is wrong and they learn their lesson because they now regret it how else would you expect a person like that to interpret that statement?

[@kreneeh]

I come here seeking sanity. Thanks Colin.

[@nerys71]

No you don't you come here seeking confirmation of your religious insanity of your religious delusions you want confirmation of what you believe and that's it that's what you want.

[@thesisypheanjournal1271]

Calling what they do “gender affirming care” is like calling binocular enucleation “vision affirming care.”

[@hhlptf]

Here's how we can easily show you have 0 clue what you're talking about. Explain "what they do" with gender affirming care. Be detailed

[@thesisypheanjournal1271]

Chemically or surgically neutering children. It's mutilation, not "care."@@hhlptf

[@dave-kt7sj]

@@thesisypheanjournal1271 I would call it "blind affirming care", as you're not really assisting or changing vision by removing someone's eyes. Additionally, gender affirming care can be done on any age individual, not just on children. Gender affirming care attempts to match a phenotypical sex, which is only observable and is not the same thing as genotypical sex. Gender affirming care does not always remove the ability to procreate, but does typically end in inadvertent sterilization (sort of like how most people born with XY chromosomes are phenotypically male).

[@joane24]

What does it say about our society/culture, that there need to be expert lectures explaining what is the sex binary?🙈🤔🤷‍♀️

[@pamelaroyce5285]

Love your monkey emoji! 😂😂😂 How many of our ape cousins approach each other with, “Uh, are you male or female or something else?” Or any other mammals, for that matter. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Some people have just gone… 😂😂😂😂😂

[@robertmarshall2502]

@@pamelaroyce5285 I was literally explaining to someone yesterday that 6-month-olds have been proven to begin to differentiate male and female faces. (As part of the old, you can never ever spot a trans identified male, silliness) Ppl always get annoyed at my source for that because it's actually about how they can differentiate different ape faces at an incredibly young age and then specialize in humans and as adults we can't differentiate ape faces well. It's also 22 years old. Their response is always, I'm not reading that it's too long, therefore I disagree with you. I feel like the correct response should be, well obviously they can differentiate a bit between male and female, we all can but what's this curious stuff about monkeys? What's that, they can hear sounds we can't too? I find these ideologues to be characterized by a distinct lack of curiosity, an inability to sit down, focus and read and a preference to live in a childish make believe bubble rather than leave the comfort zone of their keyboard.

[@pamelaroyce5285]

@@robertmarshall2502 I’d be interested in that study, if you care to post the title, author and journal or publisher here. I will acknowledge having made a note of it so that you can delete it if you want to in order to fend off spurious attacks.

[@robertmarshall2502]

@@pamelaroyce5285 Is face processing species-specific during the first year of life? Olivier Pascalis et al. Science. 2002. Specialization of Neural Mechanisms Underlying Face Recognition in Human Infants It's one of these two. I've forgotten which because the trans ideologues never read anything you give them so I could make up titles and they'd never know

[@pamelaroyce5285]

@@robertmarshall2502 thank you. I might do a deep dive on this, but I have no doubts about its validity. I also suspect that we humans do detect different pheromones even though we are not conscious of doing so. I once entered a women’s restroom for the actors at a studio before the taping of a show and immediately noticed a man in a wig standing at the counter, using a curling iron on his long golden tresses. I stuffed down my feelings and went into a stall because I really could not have waited. Came out and had to stand next to him to wash my hands. I felt awkward because I couldn’t help looking at his reflection to take in the reality of a man in a women’s space. So I commented, truthfully, that I never could get the hang of curling irons. He said he’s a hairdresser, which explained his skillfulness. I’m not sure it was his physique that tipped me off when I first walked in. I think men simply smell different. But it isn’t a strong *odor*; not that kind of smell. I suspect it is subtle, like pheromones, and men have a high note of testosterone. I could be wrong, but I think it’s worth exploring. I have made a screenshot of the titles you provided, so if you want to delete your comment to avoid endless naysayers attacking you, feel free to do so. Of course, you can also simply turn off notifications for this thread. Thanks again for the info.

[@nancyjames2358]

Thank you for continuing this fight! I have been fighting on a grass roots level as a BS degree holder for years about this delutional thinking, and it is so great to see you and others speaking out and being heard.

[@nerys71]

The problem is you're the delusional one Yes 90% of the world is delusional That's what religion has done brainwashed 90% of the world to believe in fictional deities in the sky under threat of death these people just want to live their lives and you won't let them because they challenge your religious delusions

[@TrackerNeil]

I'm a paid subscriber to CW's Substack, and proud to say so. This gender jihad is bonkers, and we need more people fighting it.

[@user-hn9nh4mp2c]

🙏

[@jeffsmith5787]

Why so concerned about other have w people live their lives? Are you really that fragile?😂

[@TrackerNeil]

@@jeffsmith5787 I'm not sure what the reality of biological sex has to do with how people live their lives, other than the obvious. Can you explain what you are asking?

[@SeaBreeze-w9999]

@@jeffsmith5787 People living their lives isn't the same as making everyone believe gender ideology nonsense

[@anthonybrett]

@@jeffsmith5787 "Why so concerned about other have w people live their lives?" Because they are forcing me to live in their little fantasy world, and I don't feel like playing.

[@bodyrewilding]

Thank you Dr. Wright, excellent presentation 👏👏👏

[@televishenimoniker5546]

Excellent talk. Sad that we need this talk.

[@tanyaross7542]

I am just not complying in this insanity, male and female are real and everyone needs to get their children out of school, i feel so blessed that my children are grown up and I feel very sorry for parents now days 😔 your children are being brainwashed and confused it's so sad 😭

[@TheDarkWiiPlayer]

Schools: "btw. some people are trans" Normal parents: "oh look, my kids are learning provable facts about reality that will help them navigate society without unnecessary friction" Brain-dead fundamentalists: "YOU'RE LITERALLY MUTILATING MY CHILD BY SAYING THAT YOU ARE THE ANTICHRIST THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@HollyLyne]

Not being in school is no guarantee of protection. We home educate our two boys and always have, yet they've been captured by this cult too. No parent can completely shield their child (without sinking into abusive practices). Once they are teens and are on social media you lose them.

[@Mel-wn9gb]

@@TheDarkWiiPlayer Meanwhile back in reality, there's no evidence for the state of being 'cis' or 'trans'. It's an ideological concept based in sex stereotyping, which is sexism. That's why thinking, progressive parents don't want it taught to their children. And why it's being removed from the curriculum as we speak.

[@nerys71]

We've been brainwashing our children for thousands of years we call it religion that's exactly where this fictional binary nature of sex and binary nature of gender attached to sex which literally doesn't exist in nature came from it's delusional insanity created by religions which were created to control the masses rulers make religions and they use those religions to control people the more you can reduce people down to a finite set the easier it is to manipulate brainwashing control them That's why religions exist do as I tell you to do oh wait no I'm sorry do as God tells you to do that's it yes do as God tells you to do wink wink

[@Mel-wn9gb]

@@nerys71 Religion didn't invent sex. Evolution did. Patriarchy - of which religion is a fundamental part - invented 'gender'. So why are you buying into 'gender' by defining yourselves and everyone else in terms of it? If you oppose patriarchal religion why are you supporting it's dogma? Doesn't make sense.

[@BCSTS]

THANK YOU FOR THIS CRUCIAL TALK ! WE NEED SO MUCH MORE, URGENTLY !

[@elyse-cathrinebisson2787]

We have to begin by not saying we live in this confusing world but just bring back into balance. Let’s bring back sanity and fight the insanity.

[@robertmarshall2502]

This was an excellent presentation but at the same time I feel like I watched a presentation on why the Earth isn't flat or only 6000 yrs old. What other basic information will we need to defend next?

[@pamelaroyce5285]

😂😂😂😂😂 best comment I’ve read so far! 🏆

[@user-mv4jt9te3c]

I thought of this the other day ....🤷🏼‍♀️😳😬😉🤷🏼‍♀️

[@matthewatwood8641]

The fact that it's wrong to have sex with children is the one that is raising its hideous monstrosity of a head right now. We are being told that we must accept that pedophilia is simply what some people's sexuality is, & we must affirm it, or we're being mean to the poor chomos. Personally, I believe in the wood chipper approach.

[@zeenuf00]

​@@PoliticalTheatreTV-eu6ttok groomer

[@mordrak90]

Food. You don't need food, just light and the right breathing method. Breatharians or whatever they are called. Don't laugh, someone believing in this already died.

[@NicoleTedesco]

Very good point regarding parsimony in theory, otherwise known as “Occam’s Razor”. Yes, this is why gametes matter. THAT said, how we humans conceptualize the whole sex thing about others and about ourselves is complex and goofy. This is significant. We cannot simply dismiss this, which is why Genspect exists-it is human psychology which adds the complexity. We still must account for the psychological aspect. We are nowhere near having a unified, parsimonious model for the human psychology of gender. (I use “gender” to refer to the psychological identity model that includes our sexual characteristics as important components.) Meanwhile, for the sake of everyone’s health, we need to keep our biological theory of sex Copernican-Newtonian. Sure, there are some oddities that occur at edge cases, such as XX males (the SRY gene jumps from Y to X), but that doesn’t make the gamete model of sex wrong, it merely means that it is incomplete by itself. Sure, we need a more nuanced model to account for the oddities, just like Copernicus-Newton had to be extended by Einstein’s General Relativity to account for the precession of Mercury’a orbit. In fact, the old Copernicus-Newton model works just fine for planning probe paths from Earth to Pluto. Similarly, gamete sex models work just fine for diagnosing medical problems such as endometriosis or priapism. We literally couldn’t live through many medical troubles without the gamete sex model. Throwing that out the window is a really, really bad idea. I am sorry, but I don’t see Queer Theory (today’s Lamarckism) saving lives; in fact, I see the opposite.

[@NicoleTedesco]

@@mystic22g4in the Swyer syndrome case, the SRY gene is present but inactivated. Man or woman? Like XY males with complete androgen insensitivity syndrome, they fail to develop as men, will appear to be a woman, and will live their lives as women given their biological configuration. Should we force them to live as men because of this technical “gotcha?” Absolutely not. They are still technically male, however. Cases such as these, the genetic configuration for growing up as male are present, but inactive or mitigated by other factors. They have POTENTIAL to grow as male, but all that potential will be left unrealized. They certainly do not have any genetic support for large gamete production, which is important. That is, in both cases their SOX9 gene very likely produced anti-Müllerian hormone, which PRECLUDED female reproductive development. Blocked off. Not possible… well, except when some XY “males” WITH INTACT SRY GENES failed to produce anti-Müllerian hormone (complete gonadal dysgenisis) and end up giving live, unassisted birth! This was a result of mosaicism, with multiple genetic plans in the same body. Man or woman? In the case I mentioned, MOST genetic plans in that woman’s body were XY male while the important parts were XX female. Well, with a live birth involved, and given that she grew up female, female it is. Yes, it can be confusing at times, but some of the confusing situations can be easy if children are involved. Sometimes you have nothing to work with, such as lack of genital development. I knew one such person. She was raised as a woman and will live her life as a woman, but will end up without the sexual benefits of either sex. She is an XX female with deleterious mutations. The last I talked with this young woman, she was very depressed and suicidal. I unfortunately lost track of her. Suffice to say, however, in just about every case save for mosaicism, one can make a technical determination of sex at the genetic level if one understands all the genes involved and not just the karyotype packaging which does NOT tell the whole story. Of course, we must also ask, how do these people see themselves? I knew a woman with high congenital adrenal hyperplasia. If you looked at her or heard her speak, she looked and sounded like a muscular, bearded man. She saw herself as a woman, however. Her genitals were certainly that way, she produced Müllerian hormone and all that. Unfortunately, her adrenal glands introduced quite a bit of testosterone into her system her entire life. She was raised a girl and continued to see herself as a woman. Psychologically this caused a great deal of distress, certainly. Life wasn’t easy for her.

[@mystic22g4]

@@NicoleTedesco Could individuals with Swyer syndrome or XX male syndrome, who do not produce gametes, still be considered male or female based on traditional binary definitions of sex that rely on gamete production? This is what’s confusing to me is not all humans produce gametes would they be a spectrum or sex and how would they fit into binary if they don’t produce gametes?

[@NicoleTedesco]

@@mystic22g4 “male” or “female” depends on context: * Ego identity * Social identity * Sexual interactions * Procreation options * Medical implications GENERALLY speaking, one answer fits well for most people most of the time. For a small minority of people, the answer stars depending on context.

[@mystic22g4]

@@NicoleTedesco One thing is for certain, there are currently over 8 billions people on earth and regardless of how one determines male or female based on the context of the examples you gave no one on earth would exist if binary sexes of males or female didn’t exist. The ability to conceive, carry a pregnancy, and give birth is a unique and defining characteristic of the female biological sex. Female-specific reproductive anatomy, including the presence of a uterus, ovaries, and the ability to produce eggs, enables females to gestate and deliver offspring. In contrast, males do not have the physiological capacity to conceive and bear children. This fundamental distinction in reproductive capabilities is a primary factor that differentiates male and female biology.

[@NicoleTedesco]

@@mystic22g4you are correct about propagation of our species. I was attempting to address that in my other comment. What do we do with people who have disorders of sexual development (DSDs), leaving them sexually ambiguous in various ways and infertile? Perhaps we relegate them to an “other” category, neither male nor female since they cannot contribute to the distinct function of propagating our species? Labels matter, right? Where do we draw the line, and why?

[@robertjones7327]

“Rediscovery” of the sex binary would effectively be like rediscovering gravity… it’s inane that we’re here but we are here for o e reason: the dominance of science funding via government.

[@Momoka7]

Imagine you stand outside, on a sunny summer day. You feel the warmth of the sun on your face, some light summer breeze is cooling you some, of the suns heat. Suddenly someone comes up next to you and talks about how dark and cold it is. Then more and ever more people come up, claiming the exact same thing. All the while you still feel the suns warmth on your face and you need to squint your eyes because it is so bright... That is how I feel with many "new knowledge" that comes up nowadays.

[@tomgunn248]

For a short time, put one hand in cold water and the other hand in warm water. Then put both hands in a third bowl of water with a thermometer. The thermometer measures the exact temperature, one hand feels the water as cold, the other as warm. In spite of the fact that the water is clearly one temperature, you experience three temperatures. All the measurements are factually true, the construction of perspectives simply varies.

[@Momoka7]

@@tomgunn248 Nice little experiment. I just don't understand what it is you try to say.

[@nerys71]

Now imagine these people that come up to you are aliens and they're from a world with a star three times as bright and half the distance to it the average temperature on their world is 200° they're literally freezing to death standing you in 100° weather trying to look around with eyes made for 10 times more light They can hardly see a thing in your dim dwindling starlight. Suddenly your statement doesn't make as much sense does it? Because these things are relative. But you're not very scientific or very logical at all You're not very intellectual at all so you're easily manipulated and brainwashed let me explain how It is observable objective fact that the human species exist as four physical sexes male female hermaphrodite and eunuch these people are real there's 130 million of them they're not theoretical or hypothetical They actually exist You don't know much about them because your religion controls your education to a huge extent and it controls our politics and it controls our corporations and a controls our public figures we've been brainwashing people under religious dogma for thousands of years 90% of the world lives under this delusion In order to make it easier to control you they want to whittle you down to a smaller subset of choices as possible because intersection individuals are so rare relatively speaking especially thousands of years ago where they probably amounted to a few hundred people worldwide even though they're 130 million people worldwide today It was easy enough when they're born you either mutilate them to make them one sex to the other or you kill them and dispose of them because they're an inconvenient fact to your religious dogma worldview And then if by chance you have parents that don't mutilate or murder you they'll try to educate you to stay quiet stay in the closet don't tell anybody what you feel or what you look like or the kind of person you are or they'll kill you or worse torture you then kill you The church decided it's easier to manipulate people if there's only two sexes and then we have this problem of expression people's personalities that's what gender is after all it's just your personality with a sexual connotation that separation is a fiction it was created by the church The church literally fabricated the very concept of male gender and female gender out of whole cloth They pulled it right out of their butts right up thin air and said we shall decree that men shall behave like this and women shall behave like this and we're going to make it even more confusing by using the same words to describe both sex and gender because we don't want people to know that section gender are different things we want to force them into thinking they're the same thing because that whittles you down to fitting into two boxes and that makes you much much easier to manipulate control and brainwash and we've done this for thousands of years under threat of death which is why most of the world lives under this delusion. The reality is the church compelled you to believe that son was warm and that it was bright even though the world could be so much warmer and so much brighter those other people realize it You're still hanging on to your religious dogma

[@martindenham2207]

It's always helpful to understand how language is being manipulated so we know what conversation we're having & limit our chances of being caught out. However, the question I have with all this 'new thinking' on established topics is simply, what problem does it solve? What is the benefit, and to who, of this 'new thinking'?

[@hhlptf]

Well control for one, now we don't have forced gender roles, that is freedom. Except for the fact that women are still being oppressed in places like Texas and Alabama if people realized that no, not every single woman is the same and that no, they aren't lesser than men. We might get stuff done instead of wasting countless hours hearing yall whine about how "you don't get it". Do 10 mins of research if you don't understand. Stop being lazy and saying "well I don't get it and I won't try". in the bare minimum if you understand it maybe you could argue your own points better. That being said, we already have the technology to manipulate many characteristics of children while they bare still just an egg. It's not too far off where it won't be surgery to affirm gender it will just be genetically. Then what arguments could be said? They literally WILL be genetically whatever they choose and there won't be any surgery involved at all.

[@nerys71]

Yes it is interesting it's too bad most of you summarily ignore it. You know the fact that rulers created religions for the sole purpose of manipulating brainwashing controlling people and we rendered our mental broad scape our mindscape down to a false dichotomy of male and female men and women and we lock those two together so you can't even swap between them because the fewer options you have the easier you are to brainwash manipulate and control and that's the purpose of religion to do that Let's ignore the fact that we literally have 130 million people alive on this planet who are literally exceptions to your false dichotomy of male and female sex these people are called intersex They are literally many of them neither male nor female some of them are both some of them are neither many of them are a mix of the two No one is saying they're normal they're 1.7% of the population they're obviously abnormalities That's irrelevant That's what a snake oil says man says when he wants to dismiss inconvenient facts that destroy his truth The fact is these people exist and the fact is they don't fit in male or female categories which is proof outright objective fact observable fact that the dichotomy of male and female sex is a fiction And let's not even talk about gender we literally created male and female gender out of thin air we pulled them right out of our ass and decreed they exist and applied them to male and female sex in order to restrict your mental mindscape to make you easier to manipulate control and brainwash. And if you disagreed openly the church would kill you Don't think this still happens now? Go try being gay in Russia Go ask Alan turing's family what they did to him when they found out he was gay even though he helped us win world war II literally helped us win world war II they imprisoned and castrated him when they found out he was gay. This movement isn't new it's existed throughout all of humanity's existence because the false dichotomy of section gender is literally that it's a logical fallacy it doesn't actually exist in reality we made it up because it makes it easier to brainwash you These people are coming out of the closet so to speak now because we finally live in a time where some of us in some places I don't include myself in the trans community can be open about who they are without the fear of immediate murder or torture. And God forbid if these people are a little bit confused because they've had to hide in the closet for thousands of years so they don't have a history of discussion talking about and understanding what they are and how they feel because we kept murdering them.

[@bettybray5366]

Such a clear explanation. Thank you. I now have what I need to explain this to my children.

[@Knuck_Knucks]

"Sperg or a spegg." 🤣 🐿

[@pedrofrigola5224]

Thank you for the great talk, and explicitly addressing (using the solar system analogy) why sex is define based on gamete size. Good science is based on developing predictive, efficient, and coherent models - this is the case with the heliocentric astronomical model AND the gamete size based sex binary model.

[@kuumaroshtheundyingfury6843]

If I had been born in this generation now (35 yo autistic female) and displayed strong special interests in talking about, playing and putting together computers as a young girl (i still do too to this day) no doubt I believe I would be approached by teachers and/or counsellors convincing me that I am actually trans instead and my interests aren't considered "normal" to them.

[@hope539]

And it's sad that autistic people(and neurodivergent people in general) would indeed be very confused because of it, because as much as I know(I don't have autism) their nervous system may indeed make them "more confused" than "neurotypical" people at these words/things/terms etc. They'd probably have trouble with processing all of that logically, so these things indeed can harm them enormously(I hope I'm not being rude or ignorant, that's just my assumptions from what I've heard about autism in different sources). Children/teens are especially easy to manipulate, and it can lead to them struggling with their own identity for their whole life. I miss those times when people were actually trying to get rid of old gender stereotypes. But now they embrace them, trying to push even more harmful agenda... That's concerning and frustrating.

[@thelestrangelair]

It's like they're saying girls can't do anything cool. Very insulting of them. Bad Muggles.

[@JeffMTX]

Yep, and they’d try to put you on some psychoactive drug that would throw you off so bad that you’d agree to let them mutilate you. The marxists have gotten hold of medicine, and now medicine is dangerous.

[@nerys71]

You probably are you see gender is a spectrum nobody's at one end of the other everywhere is somewhere in between The problem is the need the feeling the need to label that our religious dogma wants us to categorize you into a box and that's not how spectrums work Sex is a checkbox The human species has four physical sexes you are going to fit into one of those four boxes gender is a spectrum it's literally your expression it's your personality there are many things that affect your personality you are gender Your hormones affect it your genetics affected You're upbringing in education affect it your own personal desires and traits affect it Unlike sex which is hardware gender is software The only reason the word gender even exists is because the church fabricated to non-existent genders called male and female and impose them on humanity under threat of death because a more restricted mental scape is an easier population to manipulate control and brainwash conform comply or die and that's literally how we did it for thousands of years Eventually if we manage to defeat the church and correct the delusion that 90% of the world lives under gender will cease to be a thing you'll ask somebody what gender are you and they'll look at you like what what the hell does that mean? I'm just me. Right now it's confusing and these people are confused and the reason they're confused is because for thousands of years there was no way for them to talk communicate or organize because for thousands of years if you didn't fit and conform to the dichotomy the church created you were tortured or killed or if your parents actually cared about you they taught you to keep quiet and stay in the closet

[@albertdepeal9658]

I'd agree that personalities are on a spectrum, there are strong, skilled hardworking women in the construction fields, and warm, compassionate men in the nursing fields, that's their personalities, not their genders.

[@nybergjm]

Loved the "Sperg" and "Spegg"hypothetical gamete examples! Very funny, and clearly debunks the notion of "intersex" actually constituting a real category of sex in humans.

[@givmi_more_w9251]

Lol, sperg, I thought that was a slur. Well, still fits.

[@hhlptf]

Weird that sex and gender are different yall are just patting yourselves on the back for misunderstanding the argument to begin with and it's actually hilarious

[@smithsmith1956]

​@@hhlptfGender and sex are the same thing.

[@hhlptf]

@smithsmith1956 Gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviours, expressions and identities of girls, women, boys, men, and gender diverse people. You aren't just wrong, you're lazy for not taking 5 seconds to google words definitions.

[@smithsmith1956]

@@hhlptf Nope. That's the new age definition. The social engineering. And it was started by a journalist of all people. Gender=sex. Period. Spit out the Kool aid.

[@eberts0604]

You've got a few typos in your slides, including "public hair." It hurts your credibility. Fix it.

[@maanvis81]

Wow, really interesting talk, also, my compliments to the presentation skills of Colin or the person making his presentation. The visuals really supported the story well.

[@barbloft]

I am so grateful for you and Heather giving us understanding and verbiage to share the subject intellectually and (hopefully) effectively.

[@nerys71]

Sadly all they've done is feed your need for religious dogma confirmation because all they've done is move the goal posts and are attempting to change the definition of sex to suit what they want it to be so that it maintains their religious dogma even though it's still violates observable objective fact right in front of their face it's just an inconvenient truth right we'll just keep changing the definition until those facts don't apply anymore how far into fiction do you want to go?

[@peloquin5652]

this channel needs so much more attention! especially because it's about SCIENCE and not just Christianity.

[@aarononeill3]

Nah, Jesus needs more attention, because he answers the most important question.

[@fritharobinson9527]

I've been thinking about Occam's razor and the earth centered model with this madness. Excellent presentation and a wonderful call for sanity!

[@nerys71]

You wouldn't understand sanity or Occam's razor if it smacked you in the face

[@jacquelinewilliams2626]

I wondered and had the same questions like that lady 🧐 it is hard to understand, like how did it come to this? Why aren’t more of us pushing back?

[@nerys71]

Because people are starting to wake up and realize they've been lied to throughout human history. 90% of the world is literally delusional They believe in fairy tale fictional deities in the sky and those deities decree that they must be one of these two in a false dichotomy that doesn't actually exist in nature. This guy here is a sad example of a scientist doesn't even deserve the title because he insists on really mixing his religious dogma with his science and allowing his religious dogma to dictate his science even in the face of obvious objective observable fact to the contrary What people like him do is they realize oh crap I might actually be wrong but I don't want to admit I'm wrong because God says so so I'll simply move the goal posts and change the conversation so that I can try to declare myself right The problem is the people who violate his idea of right exist as real flesh and blood breathing living human beings They don't simply disappear because he moved the goalpost I mean seriously gametes? did you even know what that meant before videos like this? Have you even ever heard of that word before videos like this? 99.9% of you probably never even heard of that word before watching some video similar to this Because that's not how people define sex sex has multiple definitions depending on who you are and why you need to know it average lay people do not care about chromosomes gametes or genetics we define sex in a very simplistic manner what is your silhouette appearance meaning what does your body look like and what genitalia do you have dangling between your legs That's it it's that simple That's how we define sex A doctor needs to get a little more detailed because he has a job to do and that job requires that detail A biologist requires different details in more details that doesn't make any of these definitions wrong it just makes them different and scrutiny and purpose for the job function they have. The problem is when the scientists ignore reality in order to proselytize their religious dogma. That's when they've become bad scientists. The human species has four physical sexes I don't care what their gametes say or what their chromosomes say They don't say what you think they say They actually make this even more complex not simpler oh people are XX or XY right? No some people are x some people are XXX some people are XXY and some people are XYY Yes all those exist and yes those chromosomes create some very confusing people to look at if you care about religious dogma and binary sex which literally doesn't exist except as religious dogma. Hermaphrodite is a real person They live they breathe they exist and evolutionary biologist doesn't care about the hermaphrodite because they can't procreate so from an evolutionary perspective there are terminated line They can't propagate further. These people are not normal they're less than 2% of the population but that's still 130 million people and just because they're not normal doesn't mean they don't exist we're not talking about normal we're talking about do they exist yes or no when you start trying to talk about normal and you start trying to talk about gametes that's you attempting to move the goal post to maintain your proselytization of religious dogma That hermaphrodite exists They are both male and female and therefore neither They are a third sex that is indisputable fact you just don't like it because it violates the truth that's been beaten to you by your religion.

[@lauraazorhernandez6724]

Awesome talk. Thank you for sharing.

[@mikecoote9546]

I copy and paste the addresses of talks I see on KZbin that are best in class. This one is simply the best in class. Well done mr Wright

[@th_gender08]

Great Work ♥

[@terrybeaud9348]

Thank you Dr. Wright. Finally this topic is being put to rest. :))

[@nerys71]

He didn't put anything to rest except his credibility as a biologist. I mean the 130 million intersex people that could potentially watch this video they don't just cease to exist because he says so :-)

[@Anne_Onymous]

This is what happens when the medical community follows politics instead of science. Absolutely blows my mind we're having this conversation.

[@nerys71]

No this is what happens when the medical community follows science and ignores politics and religious dogma The medical doctor recognizes that this is a hermaphrodite They are intersex They are neither male nor female historically the doctor would either mutilate or kill them This is doctors being doctors this is doctors doing their job This biologist is a disgrace he has violated his oath to science in order to support his religious dogma that makes him a bad scientist not a good one you just think he's a good one because you believe you're really just dogma and he supports you.

[@ibrahimjaved5574]

I am glad I have seen this video. He put it better than I could ever have. The compatison with how the model of the solar system evolved was the best part to me.

[@jayWalk8]

This was excellent - thank you for bringing such clarity to this area which has been deliberately obfuscated.

[@Notsram77]

I honestly thought it was going to take longer to go from "we're talking about Gender, not sex" to "sex is not binary." They're saying it out loud, and in print. The goalposts aren't just moving, they've broken the sound barrier.

[@slacktoryrecords4193]

And they’re also denying that they’re saying that.

[@thelestrangelair]

Worse it is being allowed. I can't hel but wonder if it's to see how much humans will cave under fear.

[@nerys71]

Exactly that's what religious zealots do each time you show them an example of how wrong they are they just move the goal posts we prove there's more than two sexes oh we're just use gametes as if that changes the existence of that hermaphrodite as soon as you accept gametes as the explanation poof the hermaphrodite disappears and ceases to exist They rose a fictional character that never existed right?

[@SteveTaranto]

Finally! A learned researcher who has brought complete clarity to such a controversial topic. I am so thankful for Dr. Wright’s voice and explanation!

[@nerys71]

And the 130 million intersex people look at their screens and wonder Where's the clarity

[@MrRight1000]

There is a famous marble of the "Sleeping Hermaphrodite" in the Louvre, Paris. It is a faithful Roman copy of a bronze original by the Hellenistic sculptor named Polycles going back to 155 BC.

[@lemonblue6282]

This was a great talk. I knew, but he made it so simple that gender is a lifestyle based on preferences and temperament and sex is a biological binary - based on the reproductive cells one's body does or will probably produce. It also occurred to me that people when I was a kid and teen would never have dreamed of defining and labeling their lifestyle this way because we were born long after the pen-pal rage and long before chat-rooms. The only people we knew were people we saw at school and work. We could see each other's style, manners, mannerisms, we talked or heard each other talking about personal interests, we gravitated to different clubs and teams and cliques - people saw each other and joined those groups. These young people have to have a precise label in order to find each other online - they carried it over into their off-line lives and taught it to their children and in some cases its coming to grand-children.

[@JH-ji6cj]

Yes, I believe so much of this is a natural reaction to the influx of choices the internet has inadvertently foisted on societies. I also sincerely expect there is a good explanation to why emotions are being amplified over more logical processing when experiencing the world. It seems to me that we are collectively seeing the amplification of what differentiates individuals and the extreme of what differentiates the species (say, to computers). Growing up watching Star Trek and seeing the characterization differences between Human and Vulkan is a good clue. Meaning that I think we are seeing these strange phenomena such as Trans more from our species grappling with technological advancements than a sinister plot. Not that it doesn't need to be challenged and exposed for its problems, because it does.

[@nerys71]

That's right gender is a lifestyle because gender is software it's your personality and while it can be altered and guided by things like instinct biology chromosomes hormones and also by environmental factors like where you grew up what your religion is mostly and how you were raised and educated it's also a choice because as sentient conscious beings what differentiates us from regular animals is that we can alter our software. Sex is not binary he just lost all credibility when he said that it's approvable indisputable non-discussable fact that the human species is made of four physical sexes Unless of course you can tell me which category does the hermaphrodite go into The male or female category Gender is a fiction created by the church gender is simply your expression how you express yourself to the world we fabricated the concept of male and female genders out of thin air because we wanted to restrict people to a false dichotomy because the more you can restrict your mental scope the easier you are to manipulate control and brainwash and that is the sole purpose and function of religions to enslave the population. Just like the church declared Earth the center of the universe and anybody who disagreed especially if you were public or had a following was murdered or if they really didn't like you tortured and then murdered We did the same thing regarding section gender if you were born intersex that's an inconvenient fact that destroys your fictional truth so you were mutilated or killed if your parents loved you and you weren't born in front of a priest They would hide you and raise you to stay in the closet because otherwise you'd be tortured and killed and your parents would be killed for protecting you. And you wonder why 90% of the world lives under the delusion of religion and believes that sex is binary even though we have 130 million people that literally exist that say otherwise. But that's an inconvenient fact for your religious dogma so we'll just pretend it doesn't exist

[@roni1384]

The Trevor Project (to whom I used to donate) is not a medical or mental health organization. They are an activist organization.

[@ZZSmithReal]

As is Mr. Wright.

[@peterwright4224]

Great lecture you have inspired me to hold an astronomy lecture about dusk and dawn thanks ........😂

[@andyx8440]

Brilliant talk .. Thank you.

[@philiphynes8652]

Thank you sir for your brilliant speech. You have done a great service to the world 🙏

[@gordons-alive4940]

sex redefined is actually a pretty accurate description of what they are doing, so the title of the article was honest, probably not much of the rest, though. Sounds like they are bringing in a lot of things that used to be secondary characteristics or part of what they were calling gender, like someone's identity or how they behave. Gender and sex are no longer referring to different aspects of a person, they've combined the two. Anything to make their ideas more convoluted.

[@petabyte6731]

Thank you thank you thank you, logic entered the room!

[@sathykay6768]

Thank you for your very clear, and obvious explanations!! I really liked it. I feel empowered. So I am not😊😊 crazy....

[@TheNesbittExperience]

Bravo! 👏🏻

[@henrikaugustsson4041]

So good to hear someone use the same argument I have been using for a long time now: what’s your contribution to reproduction? That determines what sex is, you can’t escape it.

[@Hanako-San100]

What if you’re infertile?

[@henrikaugustsson4041]

@@Hanako-San100 Doesn’t matter if you’re infertile, that doesn’t change the function you’re supposed to have. Infertility is a lack of proper function, not another function altogether. You wouldn’t say the proper function of eyes is to be blind, would you? Humans are supposed to see, but there are a myriad of diseases and developmental issues that can deprive us of that proper function, and it’s t he same with infertility. We’re supposed to be fertile, meaning our genitals are supposed to function and be able to give us offspring, but a myriad of diseases and development issues can happen that deprive us of it. It’s frankly stupid to even bring it up. It’s almost as if you’re being obtuse on purpose.

[@Hanako-San100]

@@henrikaugustsson4041 yes but how will you classify what function they are supposed to have if they are intersex like xy female and xx male? Are they not male or female anymore?

[@henrikaugustsson4041]

@@Hanako-San100 IIRC that’s basically when you have something like an immunity to your typical sex hormone, right? An xx male is technically a female who doesn’t have estranged and thus develops as a male due to getting more testosterone than they should’ve during development. Technically female, it’s not a new gender, even though she may look completely male.

[@Hanako-San100]

@@henrikaugustsson4041 if they look like a male with male organs then how would you even classify them as female if they don’t have any female organs.

[@patrick5301]

This is LITERALLY where the scientific process leads

[@phoenyxpetersen4551]

Thank you for bringing back sanity here!

[@erickallen7280]

This is excellent. Only one correction: the ancient and medieval assumption that the earth was at the center of the cosmos was not an act of hubris, but the result of a phenomenological approach to understanding the natural world, which was then mined for its philosophical and theological significance. From the medieval perspective, heaven was the most important place in the cosmos, and this placed earth spatially as far away from heaven as you could get. Far from an expression of hubris, it was driven by an assumption of unworthiness due to sin.

[@nerys71]

No it was religious dogma The initial idea of Earth as a center may have been that but the murdering of anybody who disagreed with the earth as a center of the universe was just religious dogma was just rulers wanting to control the population and force them to conform to what they say is right and wrong And the same thing applies to sex The church wants the sex of the human species to be binary because of binary sex is easier to control than a broader sex The human species is made of four physical sexes male female hermaphrodite and eunuch All this guy did was toss science out the window and move the goal posts to try to define a way those people is non-existent yet somehow if one of the 130 million intersex people are watching this video somehow I'm not sure why or how I mean it's just weird to me they well they still exist even after reading his video even after talking about gametes those people somehow still exist They didn't just disappear when this religious zealot declared his truth to the world

[@broark88]

The traits that cluster on a bimodal distribution could be described as "gendered", but the anchor of those modes is the gamete binary of sex.

[@rosemarynew2173]

I love it: ‘sanity affirmation therapy’

[@seantomo]

Now that's accurate, real science. Very informative and concise. 👍

[@vivienneb6199]

Very Good! Sadly, Heather Heying thinks females who like, and exel in, math can be said to have "masculine traits," or a masculine personality. This regressive nonsense has contributed to the present trans ideology problem.

[@aliendroneservices6621]

It isn't nonsense. Subjects within each of the two sexes exist on a respective spectrum of feminine to masculine. See, for example: femininebeauty daught info.

[@liberality]

That's not a regressive point Heather is making. If masculinity is the socially constructed interpretation of male sex, being good at math does not make a woman masculine. It just means the social construct that only males have mathematical ability is in error.

[@vivienneb6199]

@@liberality That's not Heather's point. She says some girls have this male trait, and she says some sex does NOT stop at the shoulders, but there are psychological differences between male and female.

[@vivienneb6199]

@@aliendroneservices6621 Yes, Heather and you think there is a SPECTRUM of femine to masculine.

[@aliendroneservices6621]

@@vivienneb6199 Research *_2D:4D ratio._*

[@gregorschoner9682]

Brilliant!

[@michaelgalaxy]

This is just fantastic. Really fantastic.

[@gatsu8199]

Love this guy. Crazy times we’re living in, and having a knowledgeable individual with such expertise in the relevant field cut through bull shit is quite refreshing.

[@Thaimiles]

Which “Heather” is he talking about and where is her video? Thanks!

[@Knuck_Knucks]

Probably Heather Heying, wife to Bret Weinstein. She too is an evolutionary Biologist. 🐿

[@Lumbergh42]

Probably Heather Heying

[@Thaimiles]

Thanks! When I looked around I saw it was probably her!

[@aliendroneservices6621]

28:33 28:36

[@31mabugnutin]

Heather Heying. Her lecture is on this channel.

[@brooksidejanna]

Thank you. Great clarity for us who are being bombarded by activists with so many notions. Why are so many lured to these notions-the activists apply the threat of potential suicide if those with notions are not taken seriously. Now adults are lured out of fear. An unstable product of thought.

[@nerys71]

Oh you mean like the actual realized threat of murder that your churches have conducted for thousands of years if anybody dares disagree with their religious dogma that literally redefined sex as a binary that doesn't exist and gender which never existed before the church fabricated it and if anybody disagreed you killed them or if they really didn't like you they tortured you and then killed you for thousands of years That what you're talking about?

[@xxyes8879]

An unlucky colleague of mine had to work with an employee of a large pharma company, and they were insisting that in a clinical study protocol for a new clinical trial, the word male was changed to sperm-producing person and female to egg producing person. This was someone with a phD in biology which is quite terrifying, as you would think that they would know that this is what the words man and woman already mean. In clinical trials, the binary category of male and female is very important and it defines a great deal about how you will react to a drug, and what health risks are posed to you by the drug. And yes, there are only 2 sex categories which we refer to synonymously as gender in clinical trials. Not sure how it turned out, and I doubt that their company really condoned such a thing, but glad it wasnt me having to deal with this kool aid drinker. I don`t think I could have hidden my utter contempt or been able to do what they were asking, as I refuse to take part in this pernicious, unscientific disengenuous gaslighting, and erasure of certain words from the English language.

[@nerys71]

Only two sex categories in your study so you would simply reject a hermaphrodite from the study because they can't fit into those two sex categories

[@JohnChalmers617]

Thanks for making it easy to debunk the nonsense surrounding the sexes.

[@towpottsfam7631]

Very useful thanks

[@nisvetaninalang]

This is why I say, if someone is after this excellent explanation still on that wagon of craziness, their are not going to get well any time soon. Just leave them on that wagon of non-binary nonsense.

[@1Clavdivs]

I remember a newsreader reporting on the birth of a puppy. "What gender is it"? She asked. The absurdity of being able to comment on whether a puppy had masculine or feminine characteristics at birth or whether this mattered was not apparent to her or most viewers, but the truth stuck out like dog's balls; it was male!

[@MrMattberry1]

When all this madness finally comes to an end, I hope these scientists and surgeons who went along with this scandal are named, shamed and imprisoned.

[@nerys71]

Agreed start with the guy in the video for violating his oath of trust to science and allowing his religious dogma to infiltrate his science

[@etniesalpha]

What used to be common knowledge 👏🏻

[@liz9284]

I still can’t get over the fact that Alex Jones was right about this-“turning the frogs gay”, LOL. I never looked down on Alex Jones like so many others did, but I DID think his claim about the frogs was hyperbolic, at best. I thought he was just being bombastic. But no…not so much.

[@TimBraithwaite]

A breath of sensible fresh air.

[@RoninTF2011]

Noone wants to break anything. That sex is bimodal...is simply a reality

[@nerys71]

The 130 million intersex people looking at your comment and going huh I read this idiot's comment but somehow I still exist

[@blugreen99]

I am studying the reality of sex spectrum and the reality of speggs (i use amicroscope and the science of speggstroscopy)

[@daviru02]

Great lecture. Thank you!

[@TheFirstManticore]

Gender is a grammatical construct. In English, sex usually matches gender, though not always. In Spanish, sex matches gender in a minority of nouns. Floor and light are both sexually neuter; but in Spanish they are masculine and feminine respectively.

[@aliendroneservices6621]

26:24 The Ptolemaic model with epicycles was more-correct than the Copernican model, because orbits are not circular. The former yielded correct predictions, and the latter did not. This is the real reason the church rejected the Copernican model. Heliocentrism wasn't viable until Newton discovered the principles behind elliptical orbits.

[@liberality]

Also because when Galileo published his dialogue on the two world systems a century after Copernicus, the Pope at the time thought he was being mocked by Galileo in the book, and got offended.

[@jboushka]

At the 20 min mark: You could add that male body hair is more profuse in Caucasian men than men of other races. This could be socially inconvenient now but it is nevertheless the case, probably because Caucasians largely evolved in colder climates.

[@vthompson947]

And Caucasian women?

[@annamariposa6959]

What about Arab men? In my experience they are the most hairy though 😂

[@jboushka]

@@annamariposa6959 They are considered Caucasian ("White") as also in Iran. They also evolved in desert climates with cold nights. Non-Caucasians often evolved in climates that were hot and moist both day and night.

[@I-Dophler]

Agreed, this talk provides a clear perspective on why understanding biological sex as binary is crucial. Thanks for breaking it down!

[@I-Dophler]

This talk provides a fascinating exploration into the concept of biological sex and its fundamental binary nature. The speaker delves into the intricate details of sex determination, highlighting the distinct reproductive strategies of males and females based on gamete production. By elucidating the role of chromosomes and secondary sex characteristics, the talk sheds light on why the binary classification of sex remains a cornerstone in biological sciences.

[@lawsonharrison6927]

If it gets cold enough...my sex can be temperature dependant...

[@lornocford6482]

😂