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When uploaded to Netflix, an episode of the educational children's show "Bill Nye the Science Guy" cut out a segment saying that chromosomes determine one's gender.
[...] While noncontroversial at the time, the 1996 segment appears to contradict Netflix's new series "Bill Nye Saves the World."
The new show endorses a socially liberal understanding of gender, under which gender is defined by self-identification rather than genetics and there are more than just the two traditional genders.
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Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 05 2017, @10:50AM (5 children)
Gender is not a social construct -- science tells us there are only two genders and that gender is not an assignment but an irreversible in-utero development. Being confused about this is recognised as a serious mental illness, one society should stop encouraging or enabling.
(Score: 5, Informative) by NotSanguine on Friday May 05 2017, @11:18AM (2 children)
both how the social construct called "gender" has changed since 1996, as compared with the biological concept of sex.
Gender is not a social construct -- science tells us there are only two genders and that gender is not an assignment but an irreversible in-utero development. Being confused about this is recognised as a serious mental illness, one society should stop encouraging or enabling.
Incorrect. Gender has *always* been a social construct [soylentnews.org]. Sex is a biological trait. And even the biological trait isn't always a binary. Some have XXY chromosome sets. Some are born with male and female genitalia.
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 05 2017, @11:30AM
Incorrect. Two genders, multiple sexes. You cannot change the chromosomes you were born with, hence, you cannot "change gender" or treat chromosome irregular conditions such as klinefelter syndrome.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 05 2017, @01:56PM
Double down on that faggotry!
(Score: 2) by Beryllium Sphere (r) on Saturday May 06 2017, @04:57AM (1 child)
It's not confusion, and the idea that it's mental illness has proven unsustainable.
Delusions can be cured. Attempts to change the internal identity of trans* people have failed even when escalated to tactics we'd now consider unethical.
The 3-year-old girl who said "Mama, something went wrong when I was in your tummy. Please put me back so I can come out a girl" was the opposite of confused.
Anyone who cares about what doctors have discovered can check out wpath.org.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 06 2017, @09:16AM
You will find "gender dysphoria" in DSM-V, previous editions have it as "gender identity disorder".
People suffering from mental disorders are not merely deluded, if you think that then it is you who is deluded.