The Transgender Intersex Gambit: “But Intersex People Exist!”

There are only two biological sexes because there are only two types of gametes. Yes, some people are difficult to categorize by simply looking at their bodies, but if they produce a gamete (a cell capable of combining with another cell to produce a human being), it will be either an egg or a sperm, not a spegg nor any other functional option. See this short video produced by the Paradox Institute.

Almost inevitably, upon taking this position, you will hear people who have inhaled gender ideology say the "But intersex people exist." Intersex conditions exist, but they are rare (2/10,000), much rarer than the (approximately 1.4/100) of 13-17 year old teenagers now claiming to be transgender. Consider the following chart, which illustrates the number of intersex people compared to the numbers of people whose sex is obvious by simply looking:

How does the Intersex Gambit unfold? You will be challenged with the following, which I've heard in person several times from people formally educated enough to know better than to screw up something everyone learned in high school biology. They will say something like this: "Sex is not binary because intersex people exist and this demonstrates that biological sex is a spectrum." Biologist Colin Wright, author of "Understanding the Sex Binary," elaborates. Gender ideologists advises:

If no single line can be drawn, then anywhere someone chooses to draw one is totally arbitrary and subjective. If it’s totally arbitrary and subjective, then that means the categories male and female are also arbitrary and subjective “social constructs” with no firm root in biological reality. If that’s the case, why are we categorizing people in law according to these arbitrary labels instead of letting people simply label themselves? To do otherwise is to oppress people based on a biological falsehood.

Wright laments that this argument is made with "stunning success" and that it has even been embraced by "parts of the scientific establishment and the medical profession." Those using this argument include historian of science Alice Dreger.

In her book, Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex, Dreger refers to intersex individuals as “hermaphrodites,” and says: “Hermaphroditism causes a great deal of confusion, more than one might at first appreciate, because—as we will see again and again—the discovery of a ‘hermaphroditic’ body raises doubts not just about the particular body in question, but about all bodies. The questioned body forces us to ask what exactly it is—if anything—that makes the rest of us unquestionable.”

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Paradox Institute is Debunking Transgender Ideology, One Short Video at a Time

Zachary Elliott's Paradox Institute has created a series of straight-forward biology lessons to make sense of the reckless (and sometimes intentional) confusion promulgated by transgender ideology. Here is the mission statement of Paradox Institute:

In an age where the very existence of male and female are being denied, the Paradox Institute provides evidence, reason, and above all, clarity to both simple and complex topics in the biology of sex.

The content presented is directly informed by contemporary scientific literature from the fields of evolutionary and developmental biology, endocrinology, personality psychology, and neuroscience.

Each video contains a short description and citations to scientific resources.

For example, here is why "Chromosomes are not Sexes."

Description:

Some claim that rare chromosome combinations prove there are more than two sexes, yet these combinations still result in males and females, not new sexes.

Here's one more video of the many available:

"Origins of Two Sexes"

Description:

This video essay explores the origins of the two sexes: how they formed 1.2 billion years ago and why they are nearly universal across the plant and animal kingdoms. The information for the video comes from peer-reviewed sources in evolutionary biology on the evolution of sex, anisogamy, and the two sexes.

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Our Zeitgeist

What will anthropologists say about us in 100 years? What is our zeitgeist? I suggest this: Uncritically deployed empathy is motivating many of us to close our eyes to dream up utopias du jure. Your wish list can include anything you want, including 87 sexes, equal outcomes for all groups in every endeavor, a world where no police exist and even no opposition when the U.S. instigates its next discretionary war. Anything you can dream up can instantly be yours if you can gather up a mob on social media and occupy our sense-making institutions. 

Step two is to reverse-engineer society to destroy anything that gets in your way, Chesterson’s Fence be damned. This is the Age of Ad Hoc where you are invited to declare your dream to be “self-evident” so that no evidence is necessary. Get rid of traditional math and science because the techniques that allow us to make miracle medicines and airplanes that fly will repeatedly clash with your dream. Get rid of history, criminal justice research based on multi-variate analyses and the Rule of Law. Get rid of all of these things by any authoritarian means necessary, including threatening and defunding inconvenient researchers, deleting their lifetimes of work and silencing anyone trying to question your approach. Develop hundreds of new versions of the ad hominem attack. Snap your fingers to make all Enlightenment principles self-implode without discussion by calling them “racist.” No need to do any work to actually fix any of the problems that motivated your quest. Then sit back and repeatedly blame the ensuing chaos on someone else.

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Putting Himself at Personal Risk, Billboard Chris Discusses the Damage Being Done to Confused Children and Teenagers by Those Captured by Transgender Ideology

For the past two years, Billboard Chris has traveled across North America wearing a billboard and carefully explaining his concerns that children and teenagers are being grossly mistreated and permanently injured by those who embrace gender ideology. In a recent tweet, Chris is shown talking to those who would like to discuss these issues:

Thank you to everyone for the outpouring of support. I’ve been at this for 2 and a half years, with the audacious idea that having intelligent conversations out in the real world would help educate millions, and spread awareness about the abuse of child transition.

Much has happened, and we are winning spectacularly. I will try to get back to as many of you as I can in the coming days. If you are media and I have missed your message, please send it again.

Children are never born in the wrong body!

In the process of trying to have conversations, Chris has repeatedly been assaulted by trans rights activists, resulting in several serious injuries. The TRAs are desperately trying to keep the rest of us from having meaningful discussions about the damage being done to children, especially by the "gender affirming care" version of treatment.

I take the position that adults (those over 18) have, and should have, the liberty to do whatever they want with their own bodies. With regard to those under 18, I largely agree with Chris. He recently explained his position to the Florida Health and human Services Committee (I created the transcript you will find below):

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