Gender activists have hijacked and misused science for decades to push their novel views of male and female. Evolutionary biologist Colin Wright highlights another new example of this abuse on his site, Reality’s Last Stand. Involving: intersex whales.
Wright calls the story “a whale of a tale.” It comes from a recent article over at the science site bioGraphic centered on the discovery of “a whale with unusual XXY chromosomes,” which Wright says the author “twisted … to promote a pseudoscientific political narrative.” The author seems to present intersex as some helpful and celebratory third way of being, which is deceptive. She explains,
“While intersex animals are often infertile and unable to produce offspring to help a population grow, [one scholar says] that in social species such as whales, intersex animals likely play important nonreproductive roles that benefit the population in other ways.”
This is fanciful thinking, presenting this extremely rare anomaly as proof, as the author explains, that “animals that don’t fall neatly into a male-female binary” and provides “another challenge to rigid definitions of sex.”
Of course, this discovery does neither. The author’s assertions reveal an ideology rather than any objective scientific chops.
She concludes, “What society deems normal is a box carefully drawn around a wild and messy world, and each individual who can’t be contained offers a fascinating glimpse at nature’s true diversity.”
Society does not deem the male-female binary normal. Science does, and it does so vividly. Biology itself is expressly rooted in the male-female binary or what biologists call sexual dimorphism. The bioGraphic article admits this when it states, “Intersex animals are rare across species.” Highlighting the absolute exceptionality of this new whale discovery proves the fact.
Being intersex is simply a maladaptation of normal sex development of male or female. Only about 0.018% of humans can be classified as intersex due to physiological maladaptation of their sex organs or chromosomes. It is certainly not a third sex or gender.
Wright correctly explains,
“Instead of appreciating this unique whale as a fascinating example of Klinefelter syndrome in a non-human animal, activist scientists exploit these rare discoveries to push an agenda intended to ‘queer’ and destabilize basic biological facts.”
He confesses, “It’s genuinely frustrating that real scientific discoveries are constantly hijacked by activists” to tell ideological falsehoods. Science and its credibility end up suffering as a result. And none of us are smarter for it.
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