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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.
People, people, people... Say it with me: The Internet Never Forgets.
(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.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(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!