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In the end, what we see here is three prominent organismal-biology societies having been ideologically captured to the point where they will twist and misrepresent scientific fact to buttress an ideologically-based view that sex is a spectrum. These societies and their Presidents should be ashamed of themselves. Scientific truth is not determined by pronouncements of the presidents of scientific societies, however notable these presidents may be. The UBD [Universal Biological Definition] is one of the great (and few) generalizations in evolutionary biology, a definition that’s been immensely fruitful in understanding things like sexual selection. It’s a great pity that these societies are trying to scupper the UBD simply to buttress an evanescent form of gender ideology.
It's quite extraordinary – embarrassing - to see Trump standing up as the representative of real science and women's rights, against the ideologically-driven nonsense of these members of the American scientific elite. The gender rot has deep roots…
