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Anthropologists Reject the Hateful & Corrosive Notion of Two Biological Sexes (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_587)

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fluidity in anthropology
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Gad Saad
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Elizabeth Yussi Dave Rubin Shabbat Hitler Timmy Kathleen Richardson Sylvia Carrasco Mitchell Suruya Carol Hooven Bill C-63 Yanomomo Himmler Darwin

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What happens when in the service of a noble goal, in this case, making sure that all people live dignified lives free of bigotry, any reasonable person would support a bill that sought to incorporate gender expression and gender identity under the rubric of hate crimes?

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00:00:00.120 Hi everybody, this is Gad Saad, Friday evening, Shabbat, and yet here I am posting a sad truth clip
00:00:08.400 because the defense of truth, of reason, of logic, of science can never be put aside
00:00:15.920 because nothing is more important than the deontological defense of truth.
00:00:21.620 And certainly in the arena of science where you're supposed to pursue truth unencumbered by any biases,
00:00:32.180 by any ideology, by any parasitic ideas.
00:00:35.360 So some of you may remember that in 2017 I had been invited to offer testimony in front of the Canadian Senate
00:00:42.920 regarding Bill C-16 which sought to incorporate gender expression and gender identity
00:00:51.380 under the rubric of hate crimes.
00:00:56.800 And you should go back, I will post it at the end of this clip,
00:01:01.380 you should go back and listen to my testimony
00:01:04.760 which I hate to be the one to say I exactly predicted what I'm going to talk about.
00:01:11.460 This is what happens when in the service of a noble goal,
00:01:16.600 in this case making sure that all people live dignified lives free of bigotry.
00:01:22.060 Any reasonable person would support that.
00:01:24.280 When in the pursuit of that goal, using a consequentialist ethic,
00:01:28.920 you decide that it's okay to murder and rape truth in the service of that goal. 0.98
00:01:33.040 That's exactly what I talk about in the parasitic mind 0.86
00:01:36.020 where I explain that each of these idea pathogens,
00:01:38.700 each of these parasitic ideas share one commonality.
00:01:43.380 They seek to free us from the pesky shackles of reality
00:01:47.300 in the service of some quote noble social justice goal.
00:01:51.680 No, I can chew gum and walk at the same time.
00:01:55.080 I can seek to create a better world by fighting against bigotry and so on
00:02:01.800 without ever ceding one millimeter of reality, of the truth of common sense.
00:02:08.320 And so in my testimony in front of the Canadian Senate,
00:02:11.500 I had said, look, Harvard is now talking about
00:02:15.100 we need to do away with the antiquated thinking of binary,
00:02:20.500 the antiquated forms of binary thinking, male and female.
00:02:23.360 And then I said, so if I'm teaching evolutionary psychology
00:02:27.160 and I'm talking about sexual selection in the way that Darwin talked about it,
00:02:31.180 and if I'm teaching about male and female,
00:02:33.560 what stops a transgender student saying that this is transphobic,
00:02:37.340 you're using the antiquated model of binary thinking.
00:02:40.920 Go and watch my opening speech
00:02:44.020 because what I'm about to talk about is exactly what I predicted
00:02:48.760 when all of the super progressive liberal senators mocked me, scoffed at me.
00:02:57.100 Well, I await their apologies.
00:03:00.760 But in any case, let me read you what just happened
00:03:05.740 at the American Anthropological Association
00:03:08.100 and the Canadian Anthropological Society.
00:03:12.520 So they had their meeting and there was a session that was organized.
00:03:17.240 Let me first read to you the abstract of the session.
00:03:21.040 So here we go. 0.96
00:03:22.100 The title of the session was Let's Talk About Sex, Baby,
00:03:26.540 Why Biological Sex Remains a Necessary Analytic Category in Anthropology.
00:03:31.780 Well, just that.
00:03:32.860 Let's stop for a second.
00:03:34.720 Imagine that in the 21st century,
00:03:37.760 you need to have at the leading anthropological associations of Canada and the U.S.
00:03:43.040 a session that says,
00:03:44.260 hey, you know, biological sex is still important and we should talk about it.
00:03:49.020 You know, a sexually reproducing species consisting of two default phenotypes known as male and female
00:03:58.700 with very clear definition of what that means.
00:04:02.340 That's how that species sexually reproduces. 1.00
00:04:06.460 What 117 billion people who have ever lived on Earth have known until 15 minutes ago,
00:04:12.900 we now need to have an anthropological session and a scientific conference to say,
00:04:19.100 no, no, there is really such a thing as biological sex. 0.81
00:04:22.100 As I predicted would happen in 2017 at my Canadian Senate meeting,
00:04:28.640 as I have predicted for nearly 30 years,
00:04:31.620 because I've been, as you know,
00:04:33.280 I've been infusing Darwinian thinking within the social sciences in general
00:04:37.280 and within the business school in particular,
00:04:38.840 and the amount of animus that I have faced from, you know, social scientists,
00:04:43.580 because, you know, are you saying that humans are animals?
00:04:46.620 Are you saying that there are innate sex differences?
00:04:48.980 Are you saying that biology matters to human beings? 0.99
00:04:51.740 That's disgusting, professor. 1.00
00:04:53.680 You must be a Jewish Nazi. 1.00
00:04:56.840 Well, I hate to be the one to say it, but I told you so. 0.95
00:05:00.460 So let's read first the very, very controversial session that they had to then cancel.
00:05:06.920 So the participants were Kathleen Lowry.
00:05:10.220 She's a professor of anthropology.
00:05:12.080 Carol Hoeven, with whom I've communicated in the past,
00:05:14.840 she was, I think, an adjunct professor in psychology at Harvard University.
00:05:22.920 She's written a book about testosterone.
00:05:24.300 Elizabeth Weiss, with whom I've communicated and who was at the Stanford University conference
00:05:32.820 on academic freedom that I was at last year,
00:05:35.060 where I was one of the invited speakers.
00:05:38.800 She's gotten into a hot mess because of some incredible, insane, parasitic things. 0.90
00:05:45.140 And she has a site recounting the current story that I'm talking about,
00:05:49.740 Elizabeth Weiss, W-E-I-S-S.
00:05:52.560 Check her out. 0.99
00:05:53.100 Then there is Sylvia Carrasco, Kathleen Richardson, and Michelle Sirua.
00:06:01.000 By the way, for all of the diversity, inclusion, and equity,
00:06:04.920 I'm seeing here at least individuals who were tentatively,
00:06:11.420 probabilistically assigned as female at birth,
00:06:15.620 you know, because they have, you know, female-looking, 0.99
00:06:20.240 probabilistically, genitalia and stuff.
00:06:23.780 So how come there are no men here?
00:06:25.900 How come it doesn't seem as though there are any men in this?
00:06:29.760 So maybe some men can complain that there wasn't the right ratio of male to female participants in this session. 0.95
00:06:37.100 But in any case, apparently all of these women are Nazis 0.99
00:06:40.700 because they wanted to talk about the importance of biological sex in an anthropology conference. 0.88
00:06:47.460 So here we go.
00:06:49.880 The session description.
00:06:51.060 I'm going to read you the whole thing.
00:06:52.460 Just the session description, not the actual different presentations.
00:06:57.460 But that should give you a sense of the timber of the session.
00:07:02.400 And then I will read you the letter of the why they pulled it because it was so dangerous, so corrosive.
00:07:12.400 I satirized all this for years.
00:07:15.020 I mocked all this for years.
00:07:17.040 I got into trouble for years.
00:07:19.940 I had papers rejected at all sorts of journals for years because I warned against the stuff.
00:07:28.040 Well, here it is.
00:07:29.700 Session description.
00:07:31.980 While it has become increasingly common in anthropology and public life to substitute sex with gender,
00:07:38.620 there are multiple domains of research in which biological sex remains irreplaceably relevant to anthropological analysis.
00:07:46.600 Hold your horses.
00:07:48.020 You mean a sexually reproducing species consisting of two default phenotypes known as male and female.
00:07:57.240 And if you're studying the human condition in anthropology,
00:08:01.180 you need to explain in the 21st century that, you know,
00:08:04.980 the natural taxonomy of male-female remains an important category.
00:08:12.140 My goodness, this sounds like insane.
00:08:14.140 This is eugenics. 0.99
00:08:14.980 This is Nazism. 0.91
00:08:16.020 I'm already offended.
00:08:19.940 Contesting the transition from sex to gender and anthropological scholarship deserves much more critical consideration
00:08:26.800 than it has hitherto received in major disciplinary fora like AAA,
00:08:32.900 the American Association of Anthropology, whatever, and the Canadian Anthropological Society.
00:08:39.320 This diverse international panel made up of all apparent women who some physician roughly guessed probabilistically that they were female when they were born. 0.99
00:08:51.540 They were assigned as female because they had vaginas. 1.00
00:08:54.940 So it has hitherto received in major disciplinary fora. 0.99
00:09:00.660 Okay.
00:09:00.860 This diverse international panel brings together scholars from sociocultural anthropology,
00:09:05.900 archaeology, and biological anthropology.
00:09:09.100 Biological anthropology.
00:09:10.720 Who would think that in biological anthropology you would care about things like biological sex?
00:09:15.000 That seems insane.
00:09:16.180 Only Himmler and Hitler would say such a thing. 0.87
00:09:18.140 Who describe why in their work gender is not helpful and only sex will do. 0.99
00:09:23.420 So what they're basically saying there is that this distinction between gender and sex in some areas is not really a valuable distinction.
00:09:31.600 You need to be talking about biological sex.
00:09:34.300 That is the marker, the taxonomy, the binary variable of interest.
00:09:40.580 Okay.
00:09:41.820 This is particularly the case when the work is concerned with equity and the deep analysis of power and which has an aim, the achievement of genuine inclusivity.
00:09:51.460 With research foci from hominin evolution to contemporary artificial intelligence from the anthropology of education to the debates within contemporary feminism about surrogacy,
00:10:01.680 panelists make the case that while not all anthropologists need to talk about sex, baby, some absolutely do.
00:10:08.480 Okay.
00:10:08.660 So all that they're saying is that sure, you could talk about distinction between sex and gender, although by the way, they're highly correlated.
00:10:15.540 Yes, there are some women who are very masculine in their overt orientations. 0.95
00:10:19.940 And then there are some women and men who are, you know, more feminine in some of their orientations, some of their preferences, some of their behavioral patterns.
00:10:28.920 These two tend to be highly correlated.
00:10:31.920 But in any case, that's a separate issue.
00:10:34.020 All that they're saying here is that there are many domains of inquiry within anthropology where talking about gender instead of sex makes no sense.
00:10:42.900 And that the binary marker of biological sex remains important, right?
00:10:51.100 The average three-day-old pigeon knows this to be true.
00:10:55.380 But these are sophisticated anthropologists that need to be told that in the 21st century.
00:11:01.480 When until 15 minutes ago, 117 billion people who reproduced, because each of the two people who reproduced knew exactly what male and female was,
00:11:12.900 now in anthropology, that's a no-no.
00:11:16.800 I predicted this.
00:11:18.420 Go back to my testimony.
00:11:19.860 And if I seem pissed off, it's because there is nothing more soul-crushing to the human spirit than when a mind is parasitized.
00:11:32.280 Because what that does is it removes the dignity of reason.
00:11:36.540 When you're unable to any longer say, yes, I know what male is, I know what female is.
00:11:45.140 This says nothing about the fact that people who suffer from gender dysphoria exist.
00:11:51.360 And that, of course, there should be no institutionalized forms of bigotry against them.
00:11:56.700 Of course, that's true.
00:11:58.740 That doesn't mean that we can't talk about biological sex because it is harmful to marginalized communities. 0.97
00:12:06.540 All right.
00:12:07.180 Now, let's read.
00:12:08.920 So, I read you the session that had been accepted.
00:12:12.000 But then upon further analysis, they decided that that session where six or seven women, these are not, you know, SS members.
00:12:22.620 These are not part of the inner circle of Hitler.
00:12:25.540 These are, you know, well-established scientists, female scientists. 1.00
00:12:32.320 No, we need to shut them down.
00:12:34.860 Let me read you the letter from, that was published in the American Anthropological Association.
00:12:40.680 And I'll put the two places where I'm reading this stuff from.
00:12:44.220 I will post in the description.
00:12:46.820 Okay.
00:12:48.620 All right.
00:12:49.500 No place for transphobia in anthropology.
00:12:53.720 Session pulled from annual meeting program.
00:12:56.800 Okay.
00:13:00.160 Recognizing that there are contexts where biological sex matters is transphobic.
00:13:07.440 Okay.
00:13:08.140 I'm going to say it another time.
00:13:10.140 Not to be arrogant.
00:13:11.360 Not to be gleeful.
00:13:12.780 Go back to my testimony in 2017 and see if I exactly predicted this while the senators mocked and scoffed.
00:13:25.180 All right.
00:13:26.500 Let's go on.
00:13:28.400 The AAA and the CASCA boards reached a decision to remove the session. 0.73
00:13:34.320 Quote, let's talk about sex, baby. 0.97
00:13:36.900 Why biological sex remains a necessary analytical category in anthropology from the AAA CASCA 2023 conference program.
00:13:47.740 This decision was based on extensive consultation.
00:13:52.960 Yeah.
00:13:53.120 Here's the extensive consultation.
00:13:55.100 Timmy, who works as a barista and has blue haired, aposematic hair coloring.
00:14:00.260 I want you to tell me if you are offended by the concept of biological sex.
00:14:06.200 You're triggered.
00:14:07.400 Okay.
00:14:07.740 Let's pull it.
00:14:08.640 That's the extensive consultation.
00:14:11.520 And was reached in the spirit of respect for our values in order to ensure the safety and dignity of all of our members as well as the scientific integrity of the program.
00:14:26.120 Let me stop here.
00:14:28.520 Let me do a Malibu meditator.
00:14:33.580 Bring down the blood pressure.
00:14:35.380 Remember, the highest association in Canadian anthropology and American anthropology are saying that six or seven women, I can't remember the number,
00:14:48.780 who are established researchers, who wish to have a session on why, in some contexts, anthropological research must recognize the marker of biological sex.
00:15:02.080 That does not pass scientific scrutiny, and it doesn't promote the safety and dignity of the association's members.
00:15:13.060 You know, that association that is made up of members of two phenotypes, male and female.
00:15:21.220 All right.
00:15:21.700 Let's go on.
00:15:23.260 The first ethical principle in AAA's principles of professional responsibility is to do no harm.
00:15:30.000 Oh, the Hippocratic oath.
00:15:32.660 The session was rejected because it relied on assumptions that run contrary to the settled science in our discipline.
00:15:43.060 You know which settled science? 0.99
00:15:44.340 It's the settled science that some women have nine-inch penises. 1.00
00:15:49.760 It's the settled science that men, too, can menstruate. 0.97
00:15:54.340 It's the settled science that men, too, can bear children.
00:15:58.780 It's the settled science that when physicians deliver a baby, they take a best-guest estimate.
00:16:06.980 117 billion people have existed until the noble blue-haired people came along.
00:16:13.500 Until then, we had been guessing.
00:16:15.840 When I chose to marry my wife and try to couple with her to produce children, I did a best-guest estimate.
00:16:25.100 There were really two options.
00:16:26.740 I was either going to mate repeatedly with my wife, who luckily turned out to be female. 0.98
00:16:31.800 I'm not officially.
00:16:33.380 I mean, I'm an evolutionary psychologist, but I'm not by training a biologist.
00:16:37.180 So just like the noble Supreme Court person who can't tell who's a woman because she's not a biologist, I was just going on hunches, guesses. 0.89
00:16:45.700 My two choices were I was either going to have sex with Dave Rubin or with my wife. 0.96
00:16:51.180 I just chose on a whim. 0.98
00:16:53.780 I did a flip because it's a best-guest estimate.
00:16:56.300 I chose my wife, and then we produced children. 0.97
00:16:58.820 But I could have been still mating with Dave Rubin right now, not knowing that we can't produce children through our mating because I'm not a biologist, and I'm not as accomplished as these anthropologists because I was going on this old antiquated thing, penis, vagina stuff. 0.98
00:17:17.900 Wrong. 0.94
00:17:18.360 That's not the settled science.
00:17:20.100 Let's go on.
00:17:22.680 So that run contrary to the settled science in our discipline, framed in ways that do harm to vulnerable members of our community.
00:17:30.220 In my testimony, I used the term tyranny of the minority, which has now become, you see it everywhere. 0.99
00:17:38.820 I use that term, and I use it in the parasitic mind because you have 0.01% of people who are official.
00:17:45.760 I mean, there are different estimates, but it's well under 1%, well under 1% who are not comfortable with the binary class nomenclature of male-female.
00:17:56.480 They might be non-binary.
00:17:58.020 They might be gender fluid and so on and so forth. 0.99
00:18:01.620 Therefore, 99.9% of people who do identify, who are cis, who are heteronormative, have to no longer abide by those markers of personhood because that marginalizes the 0.01%.
00:18:19.580 All right, let's go on.
00:18:20.660 It commits one of the cardinal sins of scholarship.
00:18:26.320 It assumes the truth of the proposition that it sets out to prove, namely that sex and gender are simplistically binary, and this is a fact with meaningful implications for this discipline.
00:18:36.460 Exactly.
00:18:37.400 It is absolutely not true that sex is binary.
00:18:41.380 You know, just like, for example, I've done a sad truth clip where I've shown that there are situations where people are born with more than 10 toes or less than 10 toes or more than 10 fingers or less than 10 fingers.
00:18:55.880 That proves to you that it's not a fixed trait that humans have 10 fingers and 10 toes.
00:19:01.700 As the nurse checks, when a baby is born, they count the number of toes and fingers.
00:19:06.720 That's not true.
00:19:07.700 The reality is that people are born with finger fluidity, right?
00:19:13.440 Some people are born with two, some people.
00:19:15.020 It's simply anatomically and biologically wrong to say that we are born with 10 fingers and 10 toes because Uncle Timmy was born with nine.
00:19:24.760 That's settled science.
00:19:28.620 All right.
00:19:29.720 Such efforts contradict scientific evidence, including the wealth of anthropological scholarship on gender and sex.
00:19:36.500 Forensic anthropologists talk about using bones for sex estimation, not sex identification, a process that is probabilistic rather than clearly determinative, and that is easily influenced by cognitive bias on the part of the researcher.
00:19:51.380 Exactly. 0.80
00:19:52.180 And by the way, the same argument is being used when they now say that a physician takes a best-guessed estimate as to what your sex is when they see, you know, penis and vagina. 0.98
00:20:03.320 But those are antiquated terms. 0.99
00:20:05.200 We no longer talk about, oh, there is this male appendage called penis. 1.00
00:20:10.400 You know, some women have vaginas that come in the form of nine-inch penises. 1.00
00:20:14.920 It's fluid. 1.00
00:20:16.260 That's the settled science.
00:20:18.440 That's why if I were in the U.S., I'd be voting for the Democratic Party because they're the party of science.
00:20:26.280 All right.
00:20:26.600 Let's go on.
00:20:27.060 Where am I?
00:20:32.580 Yeah.
00:20:32.720 Around the world and throughout human history, there have always been people whose gender roles do not align neatly with their reproductive anatomy.
00:20:38.800 Exactly. 0.99
00:20:39.640 My uncle Timmy used to play with dolls, and therefore it's not true that there's such a thing as penises and vaginas. 1.00
00:20:46.560 That's the whole point, right? 0.99
00:20:48.120 It's fluid.
00:20:49.120 It's a normal distribution.
00:20:50.980 There are many, many genders, many, many sexes.
00:20:53.160 And it just so happens that 117 billion people who have ever existed happen to just find the right things to go with the right parts.
00:21:01.280 All right.
00:21:01.600 Let's go on.
00:21:06.360 Yeah.
00:21:08.980 Yeah, right.
00:21:09.720 There is no single biological standard by which all humans can be reliably assorted into a binary male-female sex classification.
00:21:18.020 There is no such mechanism.
00:21:19.760 There is no way to look at a baby and to definitively say that's a boy or a girl.
00:21:26.280 There's just no way.
00:21:28.100 I don't...
00:21:28.620 Look, I'm going to tell you right now.
00:21:29.760 I don't know till today what the sex of my own children is.
00:21:36.720 I don't know.
00:21:37.700 I'm going on estimates.
00:21:38.960 I'm going on cognitive biases.
00:21:41.440 Some people have said, oh, this one looks like a daughter.
00:21:44.720 Others have said, oh, this one could be a son.
00:21:47.520 But I'm not going to abide by that because I follow the settled science of the Democratic Party.
00:21:53.840 I follow the settled science of the noble blue-haired people at the American Anthropological Association.
00:21:58.940 They're smart.
00:21:59.960 They're not dumb like us, you know, business school professors, you know, who make the highest salaries 0.99
00:22:06.640 because we actually do research on things that are coupled to the real world rather than bullshit, parasitic nonsense. 0.98
00:22:12.800 We actually have to build mathematical models of the economy.
00:22:16.380 We have to develop psychological models of consumer choice, real things, right, that drive the capitalistic economy.
00:22:24.820 We're not as sophisticated as the blue-haired people from the Anthropological Association, right? 0.99
00:22:31.740 They're gender fluid. 1.00
00:22:33.840 They're lobotomy fluid.
00:22:36.000 Some have brains.
00:22:37.020 Some don't have brains.
00:22:38.220 Some have brains but identify as not having brains. 0.81
00:22:41.600 Some have no brains but identify as being intelligent and academic.
00:22:44.640 So, there's fluidity in anthropology.
00:22:47.980 Let's go on.
00:22:51.420 On the contrary, anthropologists and others have long shown sex and gender to be historically and geographically contextual,
00:22:58.480 deeply entangled, and dynamically mutable categories.
00:23:02.140 Absolutely.
00:23:03.260 Absolutely.
00:23:04.420 Go to the Namibian Desert.
00:23:05.780 Ask the tribes there, do you know what male or female is?
00:23:08.620 They'll say, we don't know what that is.
00:23:10.100 What are you talking about, male or female?
00:23:11.580 We have no clue.
00:23:12.920 Go to the Amazon.
00:23:13.840 Yanomomo tribe, no clue.
00:23:16.280 Go back to ancient Greek poetry.
00:23:18.160 They have no clue.
00:23:19.420 It's completely contextually determined.
00:23:22.620 You don't know what. 1.00
00:23:23.620 I mean, some people say that male is, you have a vagina. 1.00
00:23:27.660 It's just, it's not known. 0.96
00:23:29.360 We don't know.
00:23:30.800 The 117 billion people who made best guess estimates just got on a lucky streak.
00:23:38.060 All right, let's go on.
00:23:38.620 The function of the gender critical scholarship advocated in this session, like the function of the race science of the late 19th and early 20th century is to advance a quote, scientific reason to question the humanity of already marginalized groups of people.
00:23:59.560 In this case, those who exist outside a strict and narrow sex slash gender binary.
00:24:04.340 So look at here, the beautiful progressive sleight of hand.
00:24:08.660 The people who are now saying that there's such a thing as biological sex are just like the race eugenicists, the Nazis.
00:24:15.160 They're no different, right?
00:24:16.780 They're the same.
00:24:17.780 They're essentialists.
00:24:18.980 They're nativists.
00:24:20.100 They're biological determinists.
00:24:21.820 Transgender and gender diverse identities have long existed, and we are committed to upholding the value and dignity of transgender people.
00:24:34.260 We believe that a more just future is possible, one where gender diversity is welcomed and supported rather than marginalized and policed.
00:24:42.800 There is nothing in the session that I read in question that marginalized or policed transgender people or said anything derogatory about transgender people.
00:24:52.440 They were simply saying that there are many contexts where biological sex matters.
00:25:00.360 I study psychology of decision making.
00:25:02.760 I study consumer psychology.
00:25:04.160 I study evolutionary psychology.
00:25:07.940 Guess what?
00:25:08.480 Biological sex really matters. 1.00
00:25:09.820 I've published many papers on sex differences where I seem to exactly know what male or female was.
00:25:14.940 According to these anthropologists, you know, I'm no different than Himmler.
00:25:19.300 And by the way, I've had many papers in my career that were desk rejected exactly for what just happened.
00:25:24.960 So it is a miracle that I was able to publish all that I published in academia, given the positions that I've taken, both in my scientific career and in my public outreach.
00:25:33.420 But guess what?
00:25:34.260 I don't give an F.
00:25:35.680 Why? 0.93
00:25:35.920 Because it is better to live as a truthful person with dignity for a minute than to live as a lobotomized coward for 10,000 years.
00:25:46.100 It is astonishing that in the 21st century, a supposedly august organization like the American Anthropological Association, with its history, like the Canadian Society of Anthropology, would be pulling a session where well-established female scholars in the field are simply making the very tepid statement that there are contexts where people are in the field.
00:26:16.080 Creating the gender versus sex distinction is meaningless because in those contexts, the biological binary classification of male and female matters.
00:26:28.280 That's all they were saying.
00:26:29.600 They didn't negate the fact that there are people who suffer from gender dysphoria, that transgender people should live free of bigotry.
00:26:36.420 They didn't say any such thing.
00:26:37.640 The mere fact that they're saying that, yes, there is such a thing as biological sex, and in some instances it matters, was enough to pull it.
00:26:47.440 I warned you.
00:26:48.720 You didn't listen.
00:26:50.500 Shabbat shalom, everybody.