When I discovered my husband's 3 crossdressing diaries in 1992, and began the rollercoaster years until 1998 when the divorce was finalized, he posed that he had a "psychological intersex condition." What he had was trauma from childhood abuse from a father with OCD--based on my observations of my father-in-law's rages, my husband's and his sister's stories, and my training in Special Education. Psychiatrists, who do have advanced training in human biology as medical doctors--and psychologists, who should have advanced training in human biology, went along with these descriptions of "wrong body" and "known since birth," from their patients, which do not comport with the long-accepted Piaget stages of cognitive development from birth to age 14.
My ex-husband also had deeply ingrained homophobia, which turned his attraction to males into a wish to be female and be the focus of male sexual desire. Not discussed in the "trans narrative" are addictions to pornography (a placebo activity which distracts from the anxieties resulting from childhood trauma, etc) and drug/alcohol excesses in the mix. Clearly, violent threads are also at play, as demonstrated from the stats on men serving time in women's prisons for violent crimes, the recent mass shootings by trans identified criminals and my data on the rate of physical/sexual assault of the wives by suddenly "female identifying" husbands.
I tell people when it comes to antagonist rhetoric, “frighten, don’t nauseate”. I’m probably the same age as your dad.
I counter nonbinary rhetoric with “name a single living person who didn’t have a mother and father - if you can, then we have found a child of possibly one nonbinary person.”
Not to pick nits but do we really need generations of research to confirm that there are exactly two sexes? This unconsciously falls into the same trap the author decries -- that one has to be up to date on the 'latest research'. That there are two sexes is as obvious as that water flows downhill.
Relying on sophistry to deceive people has been employed since time began. As an educator, I would suggest that the top priority for high-school educators should be to teach students how to think critically and how to use logic to evaluate an argument!
To be fair to the argument, there is higher math where 2+2 does not equal 4. But, that is not the standard case, and we could say it is just an unclear notation to the lay person. And, as this article states, the biology sex definition does not change with higher education. Actually, I did not know if it did or not, I don't have a PhD in biological sciences. But, Colin does, so I learned a definition different from the XY definition I learned in high-school. Which means that the real definition is in fact different than what some AP Biology students learned, because I was in AP Biology.
(Assuming we are working in base 10, we’re not playing tricks with rounding error, and we are using the plus sign to mean addition as opposed to some other mathematical operation)
You did recognize the possibility of different bases and operators, there is also modulo (if on a different scale with periodicity, could still be base 10, think about turns of a wheel on a car). The chatbots can answer this question pretty well, but of course you cannot trust them. https://copilot.microsoft.com/shares/WvzKynBMQnn8VqN8hBcZa
Oh I’m familiar with modulo arithmetic. But I thought you are supposed to designate it as (2 + 2) mod X = …
My point is that all of those are categorically different from the chemistry example given, where “it really is more complicated” is accurate. (I still distinctly remember circling back to the same topics through HS and college chemistry classes at increasing levels of sophistication.) 2+2 = 4 isn’t a simplification of a more complex phenomenon. In its ordinary meaning it is as true at the PhD level as at the elementary school level. Similarly, “there are two sexes” (in species with anisogamous gametes) is a simple, true statement.
It is the same argument. 2 plus 2 equals 4 is sometimes the wording used, the operator even looks the same. However, the meaning is different. Same argument here - that the meaning of the word sex is different at HS case. One could even argue that the HS definition is a subset and simpler case for both.
When I discovered my husband's 3 crossdressing diaries in 1992, and began the rollercoaster years until 1998 when the divorce was finalized, he posed that he had a "psychological intersex condition." What he had was trauma from childhood abuse from a father with OCD--based on my observations of my father-in-law's rages, my husband's and his sister's stories, and my training in Special Education. Psychiatrists, who do have advanced training in human biology as medical doctors--and psychologists, who should have advanced training in human biology, went along with these descriptions of "wrong body" and "known since birth," from their patients, which do not comport with the long-accepted Piaget stages of cognitive development from birth to age 14.
My ex-husband also had deeply ingrained homophobia, which turned his attraction to males into a wish to be female and be the focus of male sexual desire. Not discussed in the "trans narrative" are addictions to pornography (a placebo activity which distracts from the anxieties resulting from childhood trauma, etc) and drug/alcohol excesses in the mix. Clearly, violent threads are also at play, as demonstrated from the stats on men serving time in women's prisons for violent crimes, the recent mass shootings by trans identified criminals and my data on the rate of physical/sexual assault of the wives by suddenly "female identifying" husbands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-yLZp789HU&t=15s
Crisp brief piece.
I tell people when it comes to antagonist rhetoric, “frighten, don’t nauseate”. I’m probably the same age as your dad.
I counter nonbinary rhetoric with “name a single living person who didn’t have a mother and father - if you can, then we have found a child of possibly one nonbinary person.”
They are stumped and give up.
Not to pick nits but do we really need generations of research to confirm that there are exactly two sexes? This unconsciously falls into the same trap the author decries -- that one has to be up to date on the 'latest research'. That there are two sexes is as obvious as that water flows downhill.
Good now I'll just say even in calculus 2 + 2 = 4 and I learned that in elementary school. It's elementary my dear Watson. Now bugger off.
Relying on sophistry to deceive people has been employed since time began. As an educator, I would suggest that the top priority for high-school educators should be to teach students how to think critically and how to use logic to evaluate an argument!
To be fair to the argument, there is higher math where 2+2 does not equal 4. But, that is not the standard case, and we could say it is just an unclear notation to the lay person. And, as this article states, the biology sex definition does not change with higher education. Actually, I did not know if it did or not, I don't have a PhD in biological sciences. But, Colin does, so I learned a definition different from the XY definition I learned in high-school. Which means that the real definition is in fact different than what some AP Biology students learned, because I was in AP Biology.
When does 2+2 not equal 4?
(Assuming we are working in base 10, we’re not playing tricks with rounding error, and we are using the plus sign to mean addition as opposed to some other mathematical operation)
You did recognize the possibility of different bases and operators, there is also modulo (if on a different scale with periodicity, could still be base 10, think about turns of a wheel on a car). The chatbots can answer this question pretty well, but of course you cannot trust them. https://copilot.microsoft.com/shares/WvzKynBMQnn8VqN8hBcZa
Oh I’m familiar with modulo arithmetic. But I thought you are supposed to designate it as (2 + 2) mod X = …
My point is that all of those are categorically different from the chemistry example given, where “it really is more complicated” is accurate. (I still distinctly remember circling back to the same topics through HS and college chemistry classes at increasing levels of sophistication.) 2+2 = 4 isn’t a simplification of a more complex phenomenon. In its ordinary meaning it is as true at the PhD level as at the elementary school level. Similarly, “there are two sexes” (in species with anisogamous gametes) is a simple, true statement.
It is the same argument. 2 plus 2 equals 4 is sometimes the wording used, the operator even looks the same. However, the meaning is different. Same argument here - that the meaning of the word sex is different at HS case. One could even argue that the HS definition is a subset and simpler case for both.