A “gender non-binary dino” is not a useful teaching moment

It started out as a dino fossil that was difficult to sex but morphed into an illustration at the Field Museum in the Woke war on science:

In recent years, through her social media persona, SUE has asserted her gender identity. It all started on Twitter in March 2017. Reacting to a comment, SUE tweeted that her sex was unknown and that, like human gender non-binary people, she uses “they/them” pronouns. While it is true that her sex is indeterminate, this move conflates the exclusively human concept of gender and the incontrovertible reality of binary sex. SUE was either male or female. We just don’t know which. This purposeful misunderstanding has now made its way into her new exhibit, opened on the museum’s upper level in December 2018. In a world where even some scientists claim — erroneously — that there is no such thing as biological sex, this sets a dangerous precedent. …

With apologies to SUE and her reptilian cousins, they simply don’t have enough going on in their minds to express gender non-binary identity. l

Richard T. Pallardy, “The Case of SUE, the Woke Dinosaur” at Arc Digital

No need to apologize to them, Pallardy. They were never going to understand anyway. Never did and never would have done. But the Woke war on science, that IS real.

See also: Which side will atheists choose in the war on science? They need to re-evaluate their alliance with progressivism, which is doing science no favours.

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