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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: 3, Informative) by butthurt on Friday May 05 2017, @02:53PM (2 children)
The ultra-liberal dictionary.com makes a subtle distinction, defining "gender" as
1. either the male or female division of a species, especially as differentiated by social and cultural roles and behavior:
the feminine gender.
Compare sex (def 1).
-- http://www.dictionary.com/browse/gender [dictionary.com]
and "sex" as
1. either the male or female division of a species, especially as differentiated with reference to the reproductive functions.
-- http://www.dictionary.com/browse/sex [dictionary.com]
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday May 05 2017, @03:02PM (1 child)
Being as they also include an entirely open definition later down the page, I'm disinclined to allow them as an unbiased source.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 05 2017, @10:02PM
Even dictionaries are fake news now huh slugger.