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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: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Friday May 05 2017, @03:04PM (2 children)
Many words have multiple meanings.
Gender more properly describes the use of sexed pronouns than the actual sex itself.
Sounds like the original script was not worded carefully enough.
Even if you accept that sex!=gender, it is not clear that your chromosomes have no effect. In fact, I would venture to say that they have a very large effect.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday May 05 2017, @08:31PM (1 child)
Hmm, maybe from now on we ought to use "shklee," "shklim," and "shkler" whenever this topic comes up.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday May 05 2017, @09:50PM
I like She, Him and Shim.
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