Re: University of Sussex's vice chancellor defends professor after protesters tried to have her sacked Archived Message
Posted by Ken Waldron on October 10, 2021, 12:25 am, in reply to "Re: University of Sussex's vice chancellor defends professor after protesters tried to have her sacked"
"I probably explain/understand it wrong, but: If we consider all the characteristics that make someone appear/behave male/female, there's apparently a load of different influences from different places in the genome (plus epigenetics etc) which interconnect and can be turned on/off or mutate in complex ways, even when not considering the usual chromosomal abnormalities, just normal genetic variation - a singular focus on certain bits of the biology like the gametes/sex chromosomes in isolation doesn't tell the whole story of the organism as a system - is my understanding of it (this is cribbing from the forest valkai vid above, so maybe he's wrong in his summary - seems convincing to me, but I didn't check his sources (and it's just a YouTube video)). You can only be a father (male) or a mother (female): That's biological reproduction for you. All the rest is waffle. "...spectrum/spectra of how that genetic environment translates to the whole organism " It either translates as male or female or not at all on the biological reproductive front as stated.
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