Scientific American has published a piece claiming that "Misinformation," such as the notion that there are only two sexes, is "Being used against transgender people" and in order to target "Gender-affirming medical care."
The article states that there are three types of "Misinformation," and they are "Oversimplifying scientific knowledge, fabricating and misinterpreting research, and promoting false equivalences."
It then turns to 'scientist' Simón(e) Sun, a self described trans(sexual) ándrógýnebiologist, pronouns in bio person and notes "You describe this idea as 'sex essentialism.' Can you explain that term, and talk about how it shapes the debate."
They/she then states "Essentialism is the idea that you can take any phenomenon that is complex and distill it down to a particular set of traits. In the case of sex essentialism, the idea is that you can sufficiently describe sex by a few particular characteristics. In this debate, it used to be chromosomes, now it's gametes."
They/she continues, "The target is always moving, because if you want to make something binary, then you need to find the most binary characteristic. Today, sex essentialism boils all of sex down to the gametes that a person produces."
"But biology is just not that simple," Sun continues, adding "The sex essentialist perspective is completely wrong about the biology of how sex characteristics arise."
All of this comes in the wake of a major long term study in the UK that concluded that treatment gender-confused children have been offered was built entirely on "Shaky foundations" and that there is "No good evidence to support the global clinical practice of prescribing hormones to under-18s to pause puberty or transition to the opposite sex."
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