The department argued in its memo that key government agencies needed to adopt an explicit and uniform definition of gender as determined “on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable.” The agency’s proposed definition would define sex as either male or female, unchangeable, and determined by the genitals that a person is born with, according to a draft reviewed by The Times. Any dispute about one’s sex would have to be clarified using genetic testing.
‘… a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable.’
Gender is an amalgamation of several elements: chromosomes (those X’s and Y’s), anatomy (internal sex organs and external genitals), hormones (relative levels of testosterone and estrogen), psychology (self-defined gender identity), and culture (socially defined gender behaviors). And sometimes people who are born with the chromosomes and genitals of one sex realize that they are transgender, meaning they have an internal gender identity that aligns with the opposite sex—or even, occasionally, with neither gender or with no gender at all.
So a clear, objective, definition grounded in science would also be pro-trans.
Look. I know that when we’re in high school we learn about x and y chromosomes and it all seems very cut and dried. But most of the things that we learn in high school are simplified to help us understand the concept. Progressive science explores the parts that are not black and white as a means to understand our world.
As Adam Savage puts it:
Science-based legislation is meant to progress with study. It is not supposed to control what scientists say.
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