Late last month, a health official in the United Kingdom claimed that breast milk from biological males who “transitioned” to live as women is just as healthy as breast milk from a female who has given birth, which Townhall covered.
A leaked letter from a University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust medical director that was published by The Telegraph claimed that breast milk produced by “trans women” as a result of taking so-called “gender-affirming” drugs is “comparable to that produced [by a mother] following the birth of a baby.”
The hospital is known for using “woke” gender-neutral language like “chestfeeding” and “human milk” instead of “breastfeeding” and “breastmilk.”
Now, a new report from the same outlet found that the majority of scientists do not subscribe to the belief that sex is a “spectrum” that can change depending on a person’s feelings.
The survey, consisting of almost 200 scientists at British universities, found that 58 percent of respondents think sex is binary except in rare cases of intersex individuals. The survey was published by The Telegraph and Censuswide on Saturday. (via The Telegraph):
Less than a third (29 per cent) agreed with the statement “sex is not binary”, while one in eight people (13 per cent) had no views or preferred not to answer.
However, almost two thirds of scientists (64 per cent) said gender was fluid, while 22 per cent said gender is binary, and 14 per cent gave no answer.
“To me this just means that at least 29 per cent of the academics that filled out this questionnaire do not understand the biological concept of sex, and at least 22 per cent of them do not know what gender means,” Dr Wolfgang Goymann, professor for behavioural biology at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, told The Telegraph.
Dr Goymann recently published an article in the journal BioEssays, where he said some scientists are arguing that sex is a graded spectrum rather than a binary trait.
Goymann told the outlet that the science journals that have adopted the new “woke” view of sex are “opposing fundamental biological facts.”
“While we fully endorse efforts to create a more inclusive environment for gender-diverse people, this does not require denying biological sex,” he added.
“Only 58 percent of scientists were willing to affirm the absolute indisputable scientific fact that human sex is binary,” conservative commentator Matt Walsh wrote. “Imagine if only 58 percent of physicists would agree that gravity exists. That's how insane this is. The entire scientific field has become a sham.”
Only 58 percent of scientists were willing to affirm the absolute indisputable scientific fact that human sex is binary. Imagine if only 58 percent of physicists would agree that gravity exists. That's how insane this is. The entire scientific field has become a sham. https://t.co/FKhZZi9HiN
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) March 4, 2024
However, as mentioned before, 64 percent of the respondents said that the concept of “gender” is fluid. Twenty-two percent said that gender is “binary,” while 14 percent did not give an answer.
More than half the scientists included in the survey have doctorates, with 18% belonging to the faculty of social sciences, 13% in medicine and 12% in life sciences.
“This survey has two remarkable findings. The first is that 29% of academics are apparently unaware of the obvious fact that sex is binary,” Helen Joyce, director of advocacy at the human rights group Sex Matters, told the outlet.
“The second is that nearly two-thirds of academics say that ‘Gender is fluid.’ That is a strikingly confident statement about a nebulous concept,” she said.