🚨BREAKING: The @AmericanAnthro and @CASCATweet have just issued a statement on their decision to cancel a panel at their annual meeting about the reality and importance of biological sex in anthropology research. The statement accuses the panel of "transphobia," and asserts that it "relied on assumptions that run contrary to the settled science in our discipline" and would harm "vulnerable members of our community." They further accuse the panel of committing "one of the cardinal sins of scholarship," such as assuming that "sex and gender are simplistically binary, and that this is a fact with meaningful implications for the discipline." The panel, however, was only about sex, not gender. The statement goes on to make irrelevant claims about "people whose gender roles do not align neatly with their reproductive anatomy," and then falsely asserts that "There is no single biological standard by which all humans can be reliably sorted into a binary male/female sex classification" (yes there is, and it's based on the gamete a person can or would produce). They also make the absurd claim that sex a "dynamically mutable" category in humans. Lastly, the AAA/CASCA accuse the panelists of advancing a "'scientific reason' to question the humanity of already marginalized groups of people," which they claim are "those who exist outside a strict and narrow sex / gender binary." https://t.co/JWJUi0yVm9
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