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Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender

posted by Fnord666 on Friday May 05 2017, @09:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the language-evolves-too dept.

MrPlow writes:

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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.

Source: http://freebeacon.com/culture/netflix-edits-bill-nye-episode-remove-segment-chromosomes-determine-gender/

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 05 2017, @01:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 05 2017, @01:31PM (#504829)

    That's right. If you have a Y chromosome (except in cases where you have XXY and female genitalia), you are male. That's your sex.

    Thank you. I would add that most people born with XXY chromosome anomalies have a male phenotype and that in these instances we are discussing rare congenital conditions and not genders.

    I really don't understand what the big deal is about this. Those who identify their gender as distinct from their biological sex make up maybe 1% of the population. Live and let live, I say.

    Now we get to the crux of the matter, the aggressive normalisation and promotion of non-binary nonsense to the extent that children are being raised as gender neutral. That is everyone's business because in many cases, it is clear psychological abuse. Individuals suffering from gender dysphoria are rare, the more vociferous individuals attempting to bully others into favoured pronoun usage appear to be these gender non-conformity types.

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