Richard Dawkins loses ‘humanist of the year’ title over trans comments (user search)
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« on: April 20, 2021, 06:50:18 PM »

Well, race has no basis in biology and gender does, but I get where he's coming from. You can tell a male skeleton from a female skeleton almost instantaneously but it takes all kinds of tests and stuff to determine the race.

That's sex, not gender.
How do we put the brakes on this sh**t?
People are now denying biological sex is a thing too. It made more sense when it was just “gender is a social construct distinct from biological sex,” but now people are saying actually no, there’s just no sex at all. Which is completely insane.
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« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2021, 06:55:04 PM »

Well, race has no basis in biology and gender does, but I get where he's coming from. You can tell a male skeleton from a female skeleton almost instantaneously but it takes all kinds of tests and stuff to determine the race.

Race has basis in biology too, lol. The fact that you can determine a person's ethnic background based on their DNA and skeletal structure is proof of that.

Ethnicity is real, grouping those ethnicities into 3 (or 4 or 5 or more) "races" is not.

Anthropologists classify ethnic groups into larger categories all the time (but I get what you're saying).

Indeed, this is literally what is done to classify species.

All of these things have a base in biology but they are still subjective to a point. With sex, it’s a discrete value but there are rare exceptions and there could be a molecular sex and sex as defined at a functional level. Just because you have a Y chromosome doesn’t mean you can get someone pregnant but you can’t say that there’s more than two sexes.
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