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Sean Carroll and the sex spectrum, a TERF 101 course, the 97 genders, a moral panic about trans murder rates, Tulsi takes on gender, and more!

Colin Wright

Nov 19, 2022

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Sean Carroll Should Stick to Physics

Earlier this week renowned physicist and science popularizer Sean Carroll decided to step outside his realm of expertise to critique my claim on Twitter that “Biological sex is real, immutable, and binary,” by sharing a popular graphic of the purported “sex spectrum” published by Scientific American in 2017. “Actual science would like a word,” said Carroll.

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