• tahira@hilariouschaos.comOP
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    2 days ago

    So I would agree with that 58%, because there’s no option for “Yes, and intersex is irrelevant”. It’s honestly a terrible poll, most likely not written by a biologist. I wouldn’t be surprised if that 13% put down “Prefer not to say” as a sort of “This is a bad poll” response.

    I’ll let the quoted scientist in the source of the poll respond.

    “Leading science journals have been adopting this relativist view, thereby opposing fundamental biological facts,” he said.

    “While we fully endorse efforts to create a more inclusive environment for gender-diverse people, this does not require denying biological sex.

    “On the contrary, the rejection of biological sex seems to be based on a lack of knowledge about evolution and it champions species chauvinism, inasmuch as it imposes human identity notions on millions of other species.”

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      2 days ago

      i agree that poll is insufficiently specific, however, even if 100% of that 58% agreed with you, that would still not meet the criteria for scientific consensus, which is typically in the 90’s. Show me a poll that indicates those beliefs are agreed upon in the 90’s without an intersex objection and you will prove me wrong!

      https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10563654/ this might interest you, if you bother to read it, I disagree that it has anything to do with a lack of evolutionary knowledge, in fact I find the people most ignorant of evolution strongly hold this belief regularly, but that is a mere anecdote. None of the roundtable had anything to do with that, those claims seem baseless and dataless.