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COMMENTARY: The erosion of our understanding of biological sex is a result of straying from the teachings of the ancient Faith regarding the representation of the relationship between Christ and the Church in the two sexes.
The MIT Free Speech Alliance, as part of the school’s ongoing efforts to encourage respectful dialogue and model how to engage in civil discourse over controversial issues, recently hosted a debate titled “Is Sex Binary?”Philosophy professor Alex Byrne and Political Philosophy professor Holly Lawford-Smith argued that sex is indeed binary, while historian Alice Dreger and Aaron Kimberly, executive director of the Gender Dysphoria Alliance, argued against the premise. Those mindsets and medical procedures which seek to distort one’s God-given sex, or eliminate gender entirely, fail to accurately manifest our unique distinct calling to reflect God’s love for us through our bodily representations of Christ’s love for the Church and for the fallen world.
The pro-team argued that there are two “sex boxes,” male and female, and that sex is not socially constructed. Byrne pointed out that there are no sexless persons, and that while “intersex” persons, or those born with disorders of sex development (DSD), such as Kimberly, are often brought up in the transgender argument, these arguments are unrelated to the transgender debate.
Persons born with DSD often fit into one of the two reproductive categories, and the statistics that claim that transgender persons are “as common as redheads” and “are nearly 2% of the population” are, as Byrne stated, “bogus.” Those who identify as the opposite sex or as “non-binary” are unrelated to those who suffer from the tragic physical disorder of DSD. They further claim that sex identification cannot replace sex in social policy, so if one wants to establish a dating app that excludes those who “identify” as female, then one should be allowed to do so without fear of repercussions, as was not the case in a lawsuit in Australia mentioned by Lawford-Smith entitled Tickle v. Giggle.
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The MIT Free Speech Alliance, as part of the school’s ongoing efforts to encourage respectful dialogue and model how to engage in civil discourse over controversial issues, recently hosted a debate titled “Is Sex Binary?”Philosophy professor Alex Byrne and Political Philosophy professor Holly Lawford-Smith argued that sex is indeed binary, while historian Alice Dreger and Aaron Kimberly, executive director of the Gender Dysphoria Alliance, argued against the premise. Those mindsets and medical procedures which seek to distort one’s God-given sex, or eliminate gender entirely, fail to accurately manifest our unique distinct calling to reflect God’s love for us through our bodily representations of Christ’s love for the Church and for the fallen world.
The pro-team argued that there are two “sex boxes,” male and female, and that sex is not socially constructed. Byrne pointed out that there are no sexless persons, and that while “intersex” persons, or those born with disorders of sex development (DSD), such as Kimberly, are often brought up in the transgender argument, these arguments are unrelated to the transgender debate.
Persons born with DSD often fit into one of the two reproductive categories, and the statistics that claim that transgender persons are “as common as redheads” and “are nearly 2% of the population” are, as Byrne stated, “bogus.” Those who identify as the opposite sex or as “non-binary” are unrelated to those who suffer from the tragic physical disorder of DSD. They further claim that sex identification cannot replace sex in social policy, so if one wants to establish a dating app that excludes those who “identify” as female, then one should be allowed to do so without fear of repercussions, as was not the case in a lawsuit in Australia mentioned by Lawford-Smith entitled Tickle v. Giggle.
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MIT Academics Answer the Question: ‘Is Sex Binary?’
COMMENTARY: The erosion of our understanding of biological sex is a result of straying from the teachings of the ancient Faith regarding the representation of the relationship between Christ and the Church in the two sexes.
